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Brown V. Education Case Analysis

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The constitutional principle that was established in Brown v. Education case was ‘’Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal’’. The constitutional principle that it overruled was ‘’Separate but Equal’’, because it became outdated. Also, the name of the case that was overturned by Brown was Plessy v. Ferguson. The holding was based on the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and that is unconstitutional. Oliver Brown who was the parent of Linda Brown a third grader had to travel one mile away from her home to the Monroe School for black children in Topeka, Kansas. Despite that all-white Sumner School was closer to her. Oliver Brown took his daughter to that school to register her but they refused. Brown v. Board of

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