Thurgood Marshall was the lead attorney for the plaintiffs. The court eventually rolled them into one entitled Brown vs. A Landmark Ruling for the Civil Rights Movementįive cases in total went to the Supreme Court regarding school desegregation starting in 1952. Eventually, the case went to the Supreme Court. Although the Kansas court agreed that schools for black children were inferior to those of whites, it upheld Plessy vs. The case went to the state court of Kansas. Brown claimed that in 1951, his daughter, Linda, was denied access to a white elementary school in Topeka.īrown’s case claimed that the facilities for black children were unequal to those of whites, which violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment of the constitution. Oliver Brown filed a class-action suit against the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The case that eventually ended segregation in American public schools was Brown vs. Later that year, protests in North Carolina and other places also led to lawsuits, which eventually became the landmark Brown vs. In 1951, here in Prince Edward County, Barbara Rose Johns led a student protest against the poor condition of the facilities and inadequate learning resources at Moton High School. The NAACP had long held a strategy of working locally to file lawsuits against unequal school facilities for black children. Ferguson ruled that public facilities could be separate for blacks and whites as long as they were “separate but equal.” The ruling sanctioned so-called “Jim Crow” laws that made it clear that blacks and whites could indeed have access to separate facilities, including public transportation, public schools, and more. The case is one of the major foundations of the American civil rights movement and an important moment in the history of public education in the United States.
Board of Education of Topeka (1954) was a landmark case in the Supreme Court in which the justices ruled unanimously that the segregation of public schools, and state laws to support segregation, were unconstitutional.
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