Brown V. Board Of Education
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The Supreme Court over the years has made some very important decisions regarding the rights of American citizens. Only a few of these, though, still linger in the minds of almost every person residing in the United States. One of these cases is Brown v. Board of Education. This case dealt with the question: Does the segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race deprive the minority children of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment? This question was dividing the nation and the Supreme Court knew that it had to hand out a just and unanimous decision.
During this time in history the doctrine of "separate but equal" was the law. This came to be because of an earlier Supreme Court case entitled Plessy v. Ferguson. In this case, the Supreme Court stated that separate, but equal public facilities for people of...