Separate is not equal
5/31/1955
On May 17, 1954, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that separate but equal public schools violated the 14th Amendment. On May 31, 1955, Chief Justice Earl Warren issued this decree, ruling how desegregation was to be carried out. The plan directs that schools be desegregated under the control of Federal district judges “with all deliberate speed.”
National Archives, Records of the Supreme Court of the United States
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Educational Resources
Additional Resources
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka A Landmark Case Unresolved Fifty Years Later
- ARC Gallery: African Americans
