Brown v. Board of Education Is Decided
United States Supreme Court Building, 1 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20543, United States
CONFIRMADO93% DE CONFIANZAThe decision was handed down on 17 May 1954, the date carried by the opinion itself in 347 U.S. 483.[1]
A unanimous US Supreme Court held that state laws establishing separate public schools for Black and white children violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment - "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" - partially overruling Plessy v. Ferguson and its separate-but-equal doctrine.
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