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| 5.3.1.1 | Brown vs. Board of Education |
Lesson Plan 5.3.1.1: Brown vs.
Board of Education
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On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren
delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v.
Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public
schools was a violation of the 14th Amendment and was therefore unconstitutional.
This historic decision marked the end of the “separate but equal”
precedent set by the Supreme Court nearly 60 years earlier and served as a
catalyst for the expanding civil rights movement during the decade of the
1950s.