Brown v. Board of Education/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Brown v. Board of Education.

A landmark 1954 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in publicly-funded schools are unconstitutional even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.