No
The Supreme Court decision that allowed for the segregation of blacks in separate but equal facilities was Plessy v. Ferguson, decided in 1896. The Court upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine, asserting that as long as the separate facilities for blacks and whites were equal, segregation did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This ruling legitimized state-sponsored segregation until it was eventually overturned by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
Brown vs. The Board of Education ruled that separate but equal was unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court decided that the state governments could legally separate people of different races as long as the separate facilities were equal.
As a xenophobic troglodyte, I cannot disagree more emphatically. If anything, the Separate but Equal doctrine was not taken far enough.
In the movie Separate but Equal the basic facts behind the case revolved around the segregation of schools. The 14th amend was brought before the supreme court on whether the separate but equal laws were unconstitutional.
the court's interpretation of whether the equal protection clause allowed racial segregation
The Supreme Court decision that allowed for the segregation of blacks in separate but equal facilities was Plessy v. Ferguson, decided in 1896. The Court upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine, asserting that as long as the separate facilities for blacks and whites were equal, segregation did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This ruling legitimized state-sponsored segregation until it was eventually overturned by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
in plessy, the supreme court ruled that the clause allowed racial segregation; in the brown, it ruled that clause did not allow segregation
he was a judge for the supreme court in separate but equal.
in plessy, the supreme court ruled that the clause allowed racial segregation; in the brown, it ruled that clause did not allow segregation
The Supreme Court decision that found separate but equal schools to be unconstitutional and fundamentally unequal was Brown v. Board of Education (1954). This landmark ruling declared that racial segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. It overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).
In the pivotal case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the Constitution. Segregation, the Court said, was not discrimination.
1954
The supreme court in plessy v fergussion based on a theory that separate can be equal but in reality it's not
To expand the rights of minorities and women but also to limit programs that did not provide equal protection for the majority
Separate but equal
Brown vs. The Board of Education ruled that separate but equal was unconstitutional.