Hvad var afgørelsen i brown v. board of education?
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), var en skelsættende sag ved USA's højesteret, hvor domstolen erklærede statslove, der etablerede separate offentlige skoler for sorte og hvide elever, for forfatningsstridige. Afgørelsen omstødte effektivt Plessy v. Ferguson-afgørelsen fra 1896, som tillod statsstøttet segregation, for så vidt som den gjaldt for offentlig uddannelse. Warren Court's enstemmige (9-0) afgørelse, der blev afsagt den 17. maj 1954, fastslog, at "separate undervisningsfaciliteter i sagens natur er ulige". Som følge heraf blev det fastslået, at racemæssig adskillelse de jure var en overtrædelse af klausulen om lige beskyttelse i det fjortende tillæg til USA's forfatning. Denne dom banede vejen for integration og var en vigtig sejr for borgerrettighedsbevægelsen og en model for mange fremtidige sager om konsekvensrettelser. Afgørelsens 14 sider indeholdt imidlertid ikke nogen form for metode til at gøre en ende på raceadskillelsen i skolerne, og Domstolens anden afgørelse i Brown II (349 U.S. 294 (1955)) beordrede kun staterne til at ophæve raceadskillelsen "med al ønskelig hurtighed".
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision effectively overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." As a result, de jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This ruling paved the way for integration and was a major victory of the Civil Rights Movement, and a model for many future impact litigation cases. However, the decision's fourteen pages did not spell out any sort of method for ending racial segregation in schools, and the Court's second decision in Brown II (349 U.S. 294 (1955)) only ordered states to desegregate "with all deliberate speed".
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