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established "separate but equal" doctrine that would become constitutional basis for segregation.
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Mississippi school district requires Chinese-American girl to attend a segregated black school rather than a white school.
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Supreme court ruled in favor of Lloyd Gaines, a black student who had been refused admission to University of Missouri law school. This case set a precedent for other states to attempt to "equalize" Black school facilities.
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Briggs v. Elliott became one of the cases consolidated by the Supreme Court into Brown v. Board of Education.
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The Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, and declared that racial segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment.