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On May 18, 1896, the US Supreme Court endorsed “separate but equal” racial segregation with its Plessy v. Ferguson decision, a ruling that was overturned 58 years later by Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
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On February 28, 1951, Brown v. Board of Education was filed in Federal district court, in Kansas.
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January 1, 1954, was the beginning of the four cases that combined into Brown v. Board of Education.
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On May 3, 1954, exactly two weeks before the justices' momentous ruling in Brown v. Board of Education affirmed racial equality for black Americans.
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On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.