Scotus: Brown V Board

CASE BACKGROUND

• Year: 1954

• Relevant Events:

  • A young girl had to walk through a horrid patch in order to make it to her segregated school. Her family argued that this was separate, yes, but far from equal.

LAW, AMENDMENT, or CONSTITUTIONAL TEXT IN QUESTION

• Court ruling:

  • Plessy V Ferguson

MAJORITY OPINION

• Author:

  • Name of the Justice who authored the Majority Opinion.

• Key Claims:

  • The Court agreed that separate facilities violated the equal protection clause of the 14th, thus overturning the precedent set in Plessy V Ferguson

• Reasoning Used to Justify the Opinion:

  • Times are far different

  • We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of separate but equal has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

IMPLICATIONS

• Civil Rights Movements:

  • Boosted and backed up the civil rights movements