Flashcard sets with a 'brown v. board of education' term meaning 'the 1954 supreme court decision that struck down the "separate but equal" doctrine as fundamentally unequal. this case eliminated state power to use race as a criterion of discrimmination in law and provided the national government with the power to intervene by exercising strict regulatory policies against discriminatory actions'

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