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On this day, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. The case challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine established by Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. Linda Brown, a young Black student in Topeka, Kansas, was denied access to a nearby white-only school. Her family's fight led the Court to unanimously rule that segregation violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. This moment marked a major victory in the Civil Rights Movement.
🔗 Learn more about this historic case:
billofrightsinstitute.org/lessons/brown-v-board-education-1954
#ThisDayInHistory #BrownvBoard #CivilRights #EqualProtection #14thAmendment #Desegregation #SupremeCourt #LindaBrown #USHistory #EducationEquity #JimCrow #PlessyvFerguson #AmericanHistory
On this day, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. The case challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine established by Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. Linda Brown, a young Black student in Topeka, Kansas, was denied access to a nearby white-only school. Her family's fight led the Court to unanimously rule that segregation violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. This moment marked a major victory in the Civil Rights Movement.
🔗 Learn more about this historic case:
billofrightsinstitute.org/lessons/brown-v-board-education-1954
#ThisDayInHistory #BrownvBoard #CivilRights #EqualProtection #14thAmendment #Desegregation #SupremeCourt #LindaBrown #USHistory #EducationEquity #JimCrow #PlessyvFerguson #AmericanHistory
