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.
yes
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson.
No. Plessy and Brown are two separate cases. Brown v. Board of Education, (1954) overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) and declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional in 1954.
No, just the opposite. Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) validated the practice of segregation and provided a foundation for the expansion of racist Jim Crow laws. Brown v. Board of Education, (1954) overturned Plessy, holding that "separate but equal" is unconstitutional.
plessy vs. ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896),
The legal standard of "separate but equal" established in Plessy v Ferguson was not overturned for approximately 58 years. It was finally overturned in the landmark case of Brown v Board of Education in 1954, when the Supreme Court declared that segregated public schools were inherently unequal and violated the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law.