In this court, there have been six cases involving the "separate but equal" doctrine in the field of public education. In Cumming v. County Board of Education ... September 15, 1954, and ...
In 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared: “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” With this landmark decision, the United States put an end to racially segregated schools on ...
The 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling struck ... They hoped to overturn the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling which legally sanctioned the idea of racially segregated facilities.
It was one of the most significant days in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. On May 17, 1954, the nine justices unanimously ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that schools segregated by race ...
The American Journal of Law and Equality has just published a symposium on the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, possibly the Supreme Court's most iconic decision. The symposium ...