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Quotation from Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka by Supreme Court of the United States
“In approaching this problem, we cannot turn the clock back to 1868, when the Amendment was adopted, or even to 1896, when Plessy v. Ferguson was written.”
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Opinion of the Court (Warren, C.J.) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource))
Warren explains that the Court will consider public education as it exists in 1954.
Citation: "In approaching this problem, we cannot turn the clock back to 1868, when the Amendment was adopted, or even to 1896, when Plessy v. Ferguson was written." — Supreme Court of the United States, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Opinion of the Court (Warren, C.J.) (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource)). (id brown-v-board-of-education-q1)
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