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The Plessy v. Ferguson case had laws stating "separate-but-equal".
When it came to schools though, they were rarely equal. Oliver L. Brown (African American) had complained that his daughter's black school was too far away when an all white school was quite close. Brown had won the case and the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case changed the law "separate-but-equal". However, white people were very unhappy about school integrations.
The schools were now "equal", but white and black people mostly were separated among each other. (One of my teachers was the first black person to go to and all white school in her town and she said nobody talked to her the whole year.)
Plessy v. Ferguson upheld the constitutionality of states requiring that the schools be segregated. The doctrine of "separate but equal" was used to justify segregation.
Brown v. Topeka ruled that segregation laws were unconstitutional since separation as instituted by the laws didn't result in equality. The government was ran by Caucasians, and their children only went to the Caucasian schools, so they had no stake in the Black schools. So the Caucasian schools ended up being of a much better quality.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896),
Brown v. board of education
yes it did
No. The Supreme Court ruling that declared racially segregated school systems to be inherently unequal was Brown v. Board of Education which overruled Plessy v. Ferguson.
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Brown vs. Board of Education case overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson case.
The Brown vs. Board of Education case overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson case.
Plessy v. Ferguson said that it was okay for public facilities to be separate for different races, as long as they were equal. This decision set the stage for further racial segregation. It was eventually overturned in Brown v. Board of Education. That decision noted that separate is inherently unequal.
Plessy v. Ferguson.
The decision of Brown v. Board of Education, (1954) declared the previous ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause.Using a Brandeis Brief, in which "social fact" is presented as evidence, it was shown that "Separate but Equal" segregation (the ruling of Plessy) was inherently unequal because of the both the tangible inferiority in such a system and the feeling of inferiority it induced it created.Case Citation:Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)For more information, see Related Questions, below.
brown vs. board of education
Plessy vs Ferguson was the court case that supported Jim Crow laws stating that "seperate but equal" was constitutional.