Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Implementation Order, 1955.

With the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine of the Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896).

This ended legal segregation in America's public schools.

The implementation order, seen here, is signed by Chief Justice Earl Warren.

Thurgood Marshall, who helped argue the case, would later serve as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

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