In 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. For fifty-eight years, the "separate but equal" doctrine from Plessy v. Ferguson had allowed states to keep Black and white children in different schools. This episode traces the legal strategy of Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP, the arguments before the Court, and the decision that changed America.

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