citizens “equal protection of the laws.” He contended that Congress, which had passed the Fourteenth Amendment, continued to approve of

the segregated school system in the District of Co-lumbia and, therefore, must have felt that segregation was consistent with the amendment. Separate but equal be-came the law of the land.

 

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Epilogue

 

Separate but equal remained the law of the land until Brown v. Board of Educat...

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