Question 9 • Civics and Government
In Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court rejected the reasoning behind Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). Plessy had upheld racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine, but Brown ruled that segregated public schools are inherently unequal. So Brown was essentially telling the Plessy Court, “You made the wrong decision.”
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