Board's impact today, as well as the legal and social underpinnings of the decision.
Much has been written over the decades about this landmark case, decided on May 17, 1954. It's main holding, that segregated schools are inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional, was both an important legal precedent and a decision with a huge social impact. Board of Education of Topeka is one of the most celebrated decisions in U.S. Ferguson and the Separate but Equal Doctrineīrown v. Unintentionally, it opened the way for various strategies of resistance to the decision. Brown II, issued in 1955, decreed that the dismantling of separate school systems for Black and white students could proceed with "all deliberate speed," a phrase that pleased neither supporters or opponents of integration. Supreme Court unanimously declared that "in the field of public education the doctrine of 'Separate but equal' has no place." In declaring that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," it explicitly overturned the reasoning of Plessy v. That suit concerned an 1879 Kansas law that allowed large cities to operate segregated elementary schools even though secondary schools were integrated, and it gave its name to the consolidated Supreme Court decision. Supreme Court, where it was combined with four other cases, including Oliver L. Justin Moore that Virginia was vigorously equalizing Black and white schools.
Then, Howard University-trained attorneys Spotswood Robinson and Oliver Hill filed suit.Ī state court rejected the suit, agreeing with defense attorney T. The NAACP took the case, however, only when the students-by a one vote margin-agreed to seek an integrated school rather than improved conditions at their black school. On April 23, 1951, sixteen-year-old Barbara Johns led a student strike against inadequate facilities at grossly overcrowded Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, where science classes lacked even a single microscope. One of the five lawsuits came from Virginia- Davis v. The Brown decision of 1954 was actually a judgment in five different lawsuits that had been consolidated because the principle to be decided was the same-the constitutionality of laws establishing separate schools for white and Black students. In 1950 the NAACP decided that it would no longer file lawsuits seeking equal educational facilities, but only those that sought to end segregated schools entirely.
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