The decision forced schools to desegregate and allowed African American students to attend previously all-white schools. Ferguson, which had allowed for segregation in public facilities as long as they were considered equal. The Court’s decision overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine established by the 1896 case of Plessy v. In a unanimous decision, the Court declared that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and violated the Fourteenth Amendment on May 17, 1954. The case was eventually heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954. The parents argued that the segregation of public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which guarantees equal protection under the law.
Board began in 1951 when a group of African American parents in Topeka, Kansas, filed a lawsuit against the local school board. to implement desegregation, becoming an example for future cases like Brown v. The case was the first ruling in the U.S. Westminster, was settled in 1947, successfully desegregating public schools in California. The case was a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement and helped to pave the way for greater equality and justice for all Americans. Board of Education was the landmark case in the United States Supreme Court that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. Parents and education advocates have fought to guarantee children of color access to quality education for decades. The exterior eastern facade of the main entrance.
Board of Education National Historic Site. Martin Luther King, The Other America Speech (March 10, 1968) Not because they are dumb, not because they don’t have innate intelligence, but because the schools are so inadequate, so overcrowded, so devoid of quality, so segregated, if you will, that the best in these minds can never come out.” That America is the habitat of millions of people who have food and material necessities for their bodies, culture, and education for their minds … In this other America, thousands, yea, even millions, of young people are forced to attend inadequate, substandard, inferior, quality-less schools, and year after year thousands of young people in this other America finish our high schools reading at an eighth and a ninth-grade level sometimes. One America is flowing with the milk of prosperity and the honey of equality.
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