Brown v. Board of Education (January 01, 1954 - December 02, 1954)

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347 U.S. 483

Concepts School Segregation/Equal Protection v. State Rights

The Supreme Court of the United States looked not to the “tangible” factors but the effect of segregation itself on public education. The Court decided unanimously that segregation of black children in the public school system was a direct violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. It rejected the “separate but equal” doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson, 164 U.S. 537 (1896), and stated that this doctrine had no place in education. According to the Court, even if the facilities were physically equal, the children of the minority group would still receive an inferior education. Separate educational facilities were held to be “inherently unequal.”

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Brown v. Board of Education(1) by lsamuel on 2005-09-16
Brown v. Board of Education(2) by levine on 2005-09-16
Brown v. Board of Education(3) by pipers on 2005-09-16