The narrow view of the Equal Protection Clause adopted in Plessy v. Ferguson was repudiated by the Supreme Court in _______________, where the Court invalidated compulsory racial segregation in public schools, and in a series of subsequent decisions in which the Court struck down other types of Jim Crow laws.

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Brown v. Board of Education is the landmark case in which the Supreme Court rejected the "separate but equal" doctrine and declared that segregation in public schools based on race violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This decision marked the beginning of the end of legalized segregation in America, and the Court followed up with subsequent decisions that struck down other types of Jim Crow laws.

The Narrow View of the Equal Protection Clause Adopted in Plessy