The story of the Court's ruling and its aftermath is one of slow and steady chipping away at old laws and customs to achieve equal rights for all Americans. With these words, the United States Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision on Mayġ7, 1954, ruled that de jure school segregation was unconstitutional and paved the way for desegregation of educational institutions. Of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth
The plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions haveīeen brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived SeparateĮducational facilities are inherently unequal. We conclude that in the field of publicĮducation the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physicalįacilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive theĬhildren of the minority group of equal educational opportunities? We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in
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