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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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A segregated society
The Brown v. Board of Education case
Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP, and the Supreme Court
Separate is "inherently unequal"
Brown II: Desegregating with "all deliberate speed”
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Arts and humanities · US history · The postwar era (1945-1980) · The Civil Rights Movement
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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Unit 8: Learning Objective G
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Overview
In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) a unanimous Supreme Court declared that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The Court declared “separate” educational facilities “inherently unequal.” The case electrified the nation, and remains a landmark in legal history and a milestone in civil rights history. A segregated society
An 1896 Supreme Court decision, Plessy v. Ferguson, had declared “separate but equal” Jim Crow segregation legal. The Plessy ruling asserted that so long as purportedly “equal” accommodations were supplied for African Americans, the races could, legally, be separated. In consequence, “colored” and “whites only” signs proliferated across the South at facilities such as water fountains, restrooms, bus waiting areas, movie theaters, swimming pools, and public schools. [Learn more about Jim Crow]
Despite the claim that black schools were equal to white schools, schools for black children frequently lacked even basic necessities.