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Brown v. Board of Education |
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Brown v. Board of Education (of Topeka)(1954) U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment says that no state may deny equal protection of the laws to any person within its jurisdiction. The court declared separate educational facilities to be inherently unequal, thus reversing its 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson. The Brown ruling was limited to public schools, but it was believed to imply that segregation is not permissible in other public facilities. Guidelines for ending segregation were presented and school boards were advised to proceed “with all deliberate speed.” See also Thurgood Marshall. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| His feast day would be set for May 17, the anniversary of the landmark 1954 school desegregation ruling Brown v. A draft complaint that she prepared would later become Brown v. The legal grounds for challenging the South's system of Jim Crow laws and segregation had been laid the year before Parks took her stand, when the United States Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. |
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