Public schools should be integrated.
The "separate but equal" doctrine was ruled uncostitional
Brown vs. The Board of Education- Supreme Court decision that made segregation in schools unconstitutional. Linda Brown vs. Topeka, Kansas.
Following the Brown v. Board of Education case, schools had to allow black and white pupils to have an education together. They could no longer be separated into different schools. Black and white children had to be given the same, equal opportunities.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
it ended the legal segregation of the races in america.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Plessy v. Ferguson
In Brown v. Board of Education (Topeka, Kansas), the Supreme Court found unconstitutional the establishment of segregated schools to which children were assigned based on race. This presaged the end of the "separate but equal" policy and encouraged blacks in the US to press for the provision of equal status for all US citizens.
Who helped write the brief for both Mendez v. Westminster and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
Public schools should be integrated.
The Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education reversed the earlier decision made in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which upheld the "separate but equal" doctrine. This precedent had allowed for racial segregation in public facilities, asserting that separate educational institutions for different races were constitutional as long as they were equal. Brown v. Board declared that segregated schools were inherently unequal, thus unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Brown vs Board of Education was a decision about school. The courts declared government could not provide "equal but separate" educations. Schools had to desegregate.