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Q: Stare decisis, Latin for "to stand by things decided," is the doctrine that a lower court is bound by appellate court decisions (precedents) on a legal question which has previously been decided. In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson, decided that segregation was legal so long as facilities for the two races were "separate but equal". The Supreme Court overturned that precedent in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. What is/are the reason(s) for the change, given the doctrine of stare decisis?