Brown V. Board Of Education
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In 1896 the Supreme Court had held in Plessy v. Ferguson that racial
segregation was permissible as long as equal facilities were provided for
both races. Although that decision involved only passenger accommodations on
a rail road, the principle of "separate but equal" was applied thereafter to
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"separate but equal" doctrine until it decided the Brown case. In a brief,
unanimous opinion delivered by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Court declared
that: "separate education facilities are inherently unequal" and that racial
segregation violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. In a
moving passage, the chief justice argued that separating children in the
schools solely on racial grounds "generates a felling of inferiority as to
their status in the communit ....
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