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  2. Oct 27, 2009 · In his lawsuit, Brown claimed that schools for Black children were not equal to the white schools, and that segregation violated the so-called “equal protection clause” of the 14th Amendment,...

  3. Cases decided soon after ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment may be read as precluding any state-imposed distinction based on race, 1. but the Court in Plessy v. Ferguson 2. adopted a principle first propounded in litigation attacking racial segregation in the schools of Boston, Massachusetts. 3.

  4. This lasted until 1964, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Prince Edward County's decision to provide tuition grants for private schools that only admitted whites violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, in the case of Griffin v.

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    • The Supreme Court Rules 'Separate' Means Unequal. Brown v. Board of Education. The landmark case began as five separate class-action lawsuits brought by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on behalf of Black schoolchildren and their families in Kansas, South Carolina, Delaware, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
    • Brown v. Board First to Rule Against Segregation Since Reconstruction Era. The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board marked a shining moment in the NAACP’s decades-long campaign to combat school segregation.
    • Brown v. Board Does Not Instantly Desegregate Schools. The students for whom the famous Brown v. Board of Education case was brought, with their parents (L-R) Zelma Henderson, Oliver Brown, Sadie Emanuel, Lucinda Todd, and Lena Carper, 1953.
    • The Brown Ruling Becomes a Catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. Nettie Hunt explaining to her daughter Nickie the meaning of the high court’s ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education case on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  5. Mar 18, 2024 · On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional.

  6. Jun 3, 2021 · The high court upheld the lower courts, noting that since the separate cars provided equal services, the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment was not violated. Thus, the "separate but equal" doctrine became the constitutional basis for segregation.