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 by violating the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause . 
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