The U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education (1954) ended the practice of racial segregation termed "separate but equal," which had been made law by which previous U.S. Supreme Court case?

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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) established the social doctrine of "separate but equal," which stood as law for 58 years until the Court overturned it with Brown v. the Board of Education. "Separate but equal" was de jure segregation, and fueled the age of Jim Crow laws throughout the South and some other areas of the country, as well.

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