Unlike in the Brown case from Kansas, where Black-only schools were relatively well-funded and had good teachers, Clarendon County's were inferior. That was the verdict of the trial court. But instead of ordering desegregation, the court simply told the state to improve the Black schools.

2024年12月17日 · Board of Education, case in which, on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously (9–0) that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. It was one of the most important cases in the Court’s history, and it helped inspire the American civil rights movement of the late 1950s and ’60s.

The case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, was up first. But no one from the school board in the suit agreed to argue the case. In fact, by the time of the Supreme Court hearing, the board had already voted to abolish segregation.

2009年10月27日 · Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits states from segregating public school students on the basis of race.

In May 1954, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous 9–0 decision in favor of the Browns. The Court ruled that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," and therefore laws that impose them violate the Equal Protection Clause of the …

The court's ruling in Brown v. Board ushered in a new era of legal racial equality, one that's still a work in progress today, seventy years later.

2020年5月12日 · Learn the facts, background, and importance of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the case that ended the "separate but equal" doctrine and paved the way for school integration.

2024年3月18日 · On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional.

2021年6月3日 · Brown v. Board of Education. The Supreme Court's opinion in the Brown v. Board of Education case of 1954 legally ended decades of racial segregation in America's public schools. Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in …