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Tupelo Public School District v. Mississippi (2024) is a landmark decison by the United States Supreme Court which ruled that racial segregation in public schools were constitutional. The decision overruled Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which outlawed racial segregation in public schools, and reinstated Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) which permitted such measures as long as the facilities for each race where in equal quality. The decision was heavily criticized by the United States federal government, American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and aroused controversy by the Senate and House of Representatives.

The proceedings emerged from a Mississippi public school in Tupelo, which through a 2023 Department of Education inspection found that the various schools had implemented racial segregation and subsequently violated the Fourteenth Amendment. The State of Mississippi then sued the Tupelo Public School District after refusing to clamp down on such measures to enjoin the district from further discriminatory measures. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi had ruled in favor of the State of Mississippi and enjoined the district from implemented racial segregation, and awarded $100,000 in damages to affected parents. The Tupelo Public School District then appealed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the lower court verdict. The Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari and reviewed the lower court verdicts/