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Political Activism: Racial Justice and Civil Rights

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Which landmark Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional?

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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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In the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturning the previous 'separate but equal' doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).

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