Brown v' Board of Education

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Brown v. Board of Education

• May 17, 1954
• Topeka, Kansas

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Background

• All of this came about when blacks werent
• getting the same treatment as the whites in school

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Background Cont.

• In 1950, school segregations was widely accepted
  throughout the nation. In fact, it was required
  by law in most southern states.

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Background Cont.

• In 1952 the supreme court heard a number of
  school-segregation cases, including brown v.
  Board of education of Topeka, Kansas. It was
  decided unanimously in 1954 that segregation was
  unconstitutional, overthrowing the 1896 Plessy v.
  Ferguson ruling that had the separate but
  equalprecedent.