Brown_v._The_Board_of_Education

Brown v. The Board of Education The landmark Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954) settled the question of whether or not blacks and whites can receive an education integrated with or separate from each other. The case overturned the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, which established the doctrine of "separate but equal." This doctrine stated that separate public facilities of equal quality do not violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution which states that all U.S. citizens have equal protection under the law. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously to end racial segregation in public schools. The Court's decision was based on the dehumanizing effects of segregation. Although school facilities may be equal, segregating one race from another denounces one race as inferior and the other as superior. That feeling of inferiority interferes with the motivation to learn and deprives blacks of the benefits of an education they would have received in an integregated school. The Brown brown, segregation, equal, supreme, rights, race, case, separate, public, facilities, end, education, decision, court's, court, civil, states, school, racial, one, movement, established, employment, doctrine, discrimination, concerning, change, blacks, act, whites, whether, violence, violate, united, unions, under, unanimously, unable, through, system, superior, stated, state-supported, state, sought, settled, segregating, schools, saw, sanctioned