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Lostsunrise [7]
3 years ago
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What was Briggs v. Elliot? What is its historical significance? In your own words

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BARSIC [14]3 years ago
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Briggs v. Elliott.  It was the first of the five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the famous case in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional, violating the Fourteenth Amendment 's Equal Protection Clause. Following the Brown decision,...

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