Plaintiffs (Brown et al.) claimed that the segregated schools in Topeka were not equal. United States District Court for the District of Kansas – 98 F.Supp. Sharpe being decided on independently of the other four, as it argued segregation of public education violated the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause, as opposed to the 14th’s Equal Protection Clause.
Board of Education only applied to four of those cases, with Bolling v. While the facts of each case are different, the main issue in each was the constitutionality of state-sponsored segregation in public schools. Board of Education of Prince Edward County (VA.), Boiling v. Supreme Court concerning the issue of segregation in public schools. The case of Brown v Board of Education is actually five separate cases that were heard together by the U.S. In these cases, while the supreme court recognized the inequality in segregated education, they stopped short of endorsing mass desegregation to achieve said educational equality. Oklahoma Board of Regents of Higher Education (1950). Maryland (1936), Missouri ex rel Gaines v. In the early 1900s, several cases received minor victories in the struggle for racial equality such as Murray v. In the infamous “separate but equal” decision of Plessy v Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that as long as separate facilities for separate races were equal, they did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment. Prior to Brown v Board of Education in 1954, racial segregation in the United States was legally permitted by the Plessy v. Not only was this case a major victory for the Civil Rights Movement, it also paved the way for future supreme court rulings which declared all forms of segregation to be unconstitutional.
The decision, based upon the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, deemed separate educational facilities to be “inherently unequal”. The Court decided unanimously (9-0) for the plaintiffs, overturning the Plessy v Ferguson (1896) decision in the context of education. Board of Education was a landmark case in the United States Supreme Court in which the doctrine of “separate but equal,” specifically in regard to public education, was deemed unconstitutional.
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