17 mayo 1954 año - Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

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Possibly the most well-known US Supreme Court decision of the 20th century, "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka" changed the landscape of legal support for segregation, particularly racial segregation in public education.

If the 14th Amendment can be considered the "African American Bill of Rights", Brown made it official, even though the overturning of "Plessy v. Ferguson" (1896) was specifically only in the area of public education.

Led by future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) brought the case before the Supreme Court.

In May 1954, the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, ruled unanimously that segregation by race in public schools was inherently unequal and that "any language in Plessy v. Ferguson contrary to this finding is rejected".

However, the Supreme Court had avoided the issue of remedy in the ruling.

Remedy, or what each school district was actually supposed to do in order to correct the "de jure" segregation, was of critical importance.

The question was discussed in the following term and, in what became known as "Brown II", the Court state that schools must be desegregated "with all deliberate speed".

The phrase "with all deliberate speed" was an attempt to provide both flexibility and firmness, but it became justification for resistance by school districts and states throughout the South.

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