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| the cases of Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | tested the constitutional principle of equal protection of the law |
| decision of the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | was that Racial segregation did not violate the equal protection provision of the 14th amendment; impacted the lives of African Americans because it ruled that separate but equal public facilities were legal; upheld a state law that had established racial segregation practices |
| One similarity between the laws being challenged in the United States Supreme Court cases of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and Korematsu v. United States (1944) | specific groups of people were being targeted based on race or ethnicity |
| the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | advanced the civil rights movement by declaring that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th amendment |
