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What was a result of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling?.

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On May 17, 1954, the Court declared that racial segregation in public schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, effectively overturning the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision mandating "separate but equal." The Brown ruling directly affected legally segregated schools in twenty-one states.
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It encouraged many African American students to enroll in all-White schools in the South.

It showed that racial separation continued even after segregation was outlawed.

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