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 * Brown v. Board of Education**

Brown v. Board of Education was a 1954 United States Supreme Court case that ended segregation in schools. The case began in 1951 when Oliver Brown and twelve other African-American parents filed a suit against the Tokepa, Kansas School Board over inequalities in segregated schools. It was eventually brought before the Supreme Court, where Chief Justice Earl Warren and the jury, agreeing that segregated schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment and were “inherently unequal”, voted unanimously in favor of Brown (“US Supreme Court Case: Brown v. Board of Education”). This case was the beginning of the decline of segregated schools, and because of it, education for African-American children in the United States changed forever.