Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the majority opinion for Brown v. Board of Education, 347 US 483 (1954), the case overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896), and declared segregation in public education a violation of the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause.
Harry S. Truman was President when Brown v. Board of Education was originally filed, in 1951; Dwight D. Eisenhower was President when the Supreme Court ruled on the case in 1954.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was in office when the US Supreme Court declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional, in Brown v. Board of Education, (1954).
what did the U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education refer?
President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the US Supreme Court in 1953 to replace Chief Justice Fred Vinson, who had died in office. Warren wrote the landmark opinion for Brown v. Board of Education, (1954)
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He ordered schools in Washington, D.C., to be desegregated
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The Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education was about racial segregation in public schools. The court cased declared this segregation unconstitutional.
Brown vs. The Board of Education- Supreme Court decision that made segregation in schools unconstitutional. Linda Brown vs. Topeka, Kansas.
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The US Supreme Court heard Brown v. Board of Education,(1954) under its appellate jurisdiction.
The Supreme Court has no power to enforce its own decisions.