United States Reports
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The United States Reports are the official record of the Supreme Court of the United States. They include rulings, orders, case tables, in alphabetical order both by the name of the petitioner and by
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools violate
United States Reports
…United States Reports are the standard reference for Supreme Court decisions. Following The Bluebook, a commonly accepted citation protocol, the case Brown, et al., v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, for example, would be cited as: This citation indicates that the decision of the Court in the case entitled Brown v. Board of Education, as abbreviated…
The members of the U.S. Supreme Court that on May 17, 1954, ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
Chief justice Earl Warren, the author of the Supreme Court's unanimous opinion in Brown
U.S. circuit judges (from left to right) Robert A. Katzmann, Damon J. Keith, and Sonia Sotomayor at a 2004 exhibit on the Fourteenth Amendment, Thurgood Marshall, and Brown v. Board of Education