Brown v. Board of Education (1954) overturned Plessy v. Ferguson by holding that
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Segregated public schools are inherently unequal under the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause
- B
States have full sovereignty over education without federal review
- C
Religious schools are exempt from desegregation
- D
Segregation is permitted only if facilities are demonstrably equal
Explanation
Warren Court unanimously: separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Rejected the "separate but equal" doctrine of Plessy (1896).