The Brown v.Board of Education of Topeka ruling found racial segregation in schools violated the

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The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ruling found racial segregation in schools to be a violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees that all citizens be treated equally under the law. Specifically, the Supreme Court found that the "separate but equal" doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was inherently unequal and violated the rights of African American students.

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