What was the Supreme Court’s decision in the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) case?

In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court rejected the idea that segregated schools could be “separate but equal,” finding that segregation itself made public education unequal. Therefore, choice A is correct.

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