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According to Brown's attorney, how did

the "separate but equal” violate the 14th
Amendment?

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Answer:

In his lawsuit, Brown claimed that schools for Black children were not equal to the white schools, and that segregation violated the so-called “equal protection clause” of the 14th Amendment, which holds that no state can “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

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