Today in History

May 17, 1954

Brown v. Board of Education

On this day in 1954, the United States Supreme Court handed down the decision in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education. Earlier case law as set out in Plessy v. Ferguson, decided in 1896, had declared that separate schools for white students and black students were constitutional if the schools were "separate but equal". The effect of Brown v. Board of Education was to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson, stating that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." The Court deemed racial segregation a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

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