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Plessy v Ferguson (1896) upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring the separation of the races on private railroads. The decision, asserting that segregation was permissible if the separate ...

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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
in The Oxford Companion to United States History Length: 981 words
Brown V. Board of education
in Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present Length: 2774 words
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954); 349 U.S. 294 (1955)
in The Oxford Companion to American Law Length: 555 words
Brown v Board of Education (1954)
in The New Oxford Companion to Law Length: 503 words

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