Brown+vs.+Board+of+Education

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 * There were 5 cases from around the country alleging that segregation was unconstitutional.
 * The case was brought about by the NAACP.
 * Black schools were normally worse than white schools.
 * In //Plessy v. Ferguson,//the Supreme Court had misinterpreted the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Equal protection of the laws did not allow for racial segregation.
 * The Fourteenth Amendment allowed the government to prohibit any discriminatory state action based on race, including segregation in public schools.
 * The Fourteenth Amendment did not specify whether the states would be allowed to establish segregated education.
 * Psychological testing demonstrated the harmful effects of segregation on the minds of African American children.
 * The Constitution did not require white and African American children to attend the same schools.
 * Social separation of blacks and whites was a regional custom; the states should be left free to regulate their own social affairs.
 * Segregation was not harmful to black people.
 * Whites were making a good faith effort to equalize the two educational systems. But because black children were still living with the effects of slavery, it would take some time before they were able to compete with white children in the same classroom.
 *  In September 1953 Vinson died, and President Dwight Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren as chief justice. he was vital in helping to overturn Plessy vs. Fergusson.
 * || "Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law, for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the Negro group...Any language in contrary to this finding is rejected. We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." ||
 * ^  || —Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court ||
 *  It was a landmark case in that it was used a a precedent to outlaw segregation entirely.
 *  It ended segregation in schools.
 *  It ended the concept of "Separate but Equal."