Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education both applied which amendment's equal protection clause, but in opposite ways?

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Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education both applied which amendment's equal protection clause, but in opposite ways? ​

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Both Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education applied the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. However, Plessy upheld racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine, while Brown struck down segregation as inherently unequal under the same clause.

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