50 Years Later, Brown V. Board of Education Is Still a Compelling Decision

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The lead attorney on the case, Thurgood Marshall, and his colleagues wrote that states had no valid reason to impose segregation, that racial separation -- no matter how equal the facilities -- caused psychological damage to Black children, and that "restrictions or distinctions based upon race or color" violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

It echoed Marshall's expert witnesses, stating that for African American schoolchildren, segregation "generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely to ever be undone."

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50 Years Later, Brown V. Board of Education Is Still a Compelling Decision

On May 17, 1954, in the case of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, KS, the U.S. Supreme Court en...

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