What my Political Science Professor at Cal did

Jacobus tenBroek, along with Joseph Tussman, wrote “The Equal Protection of the Law” in the California Law Review of 1949.  It was the intellectual foundation of the unanimous 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education.  That decision overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which recognized the constitutionality of racial segregation.

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