Which of the 14th amendments protection was at the center of the brown v. Board of education of Topeka case?

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U. S. 483 (1954) The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits states from segregating public school students on the basis of race. This marked a reversal of the "separate but equal" doctrine from Plessy v.