Board of Education occurred after a hard-fought, multi-year campaign to persuade all nine justices to overturn the “separate but equal” doctrine that their predecessors had endorsed in the Court’s infamous 1896 Plessy v. The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Brown v.
This landmark ruling gave LDF its most celebrated victory in a long, storied history of fighting for civil rights and marked a defining moment in US history. Board of Education case declared the “separate but equal” doctrine unconstitutional. On May 17, 1954, a decision in the Brown vs.
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