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McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education - Significance

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The ruling provided further evidence of the Court's abandonment of the "separate but equal" approach to racial segregation in education as advanced in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). This doctrine was replaced with complete opposition to segregation in education, which the Court established in Lloyd Gaines v. University of Missouri (1937) and Sipuel v. University of Oklahoma (1948). Eventually, the Court's stand against educational segregation yielded what is arguably its most historic decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

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