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Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the majority opinion for Brown v. Board of Education, 347 US 483 (1954), the case overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896), and declared segregation in public education a violation of the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause.

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Harry S. Truman was President when Brown v. Board of Education was originally filed, in 1951; Dwight D. Eisenhower was President when the Supreme Court ruled on the case in 1954.

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower was in office when the US Supreme Court declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional, in Brown v. Board of Education, (1954).

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