may 17, 1954 - Brown vs Board

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When: May 17, 1954
Where: Topeka, Kansas
Who: Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas Robert H. Jackson · Harold H. Burton Tom C. Clark · Sherman Minton where all involved, including some of the best attorneys, Robert Carter, Jack Greenberg, Constance Baker Motley, Spottswood Robinson, Oliver Hill, Louis Redding, Charles and John Scott, Harold R.
What: the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was a no go. legal segregation was going away in the US, overruling the "separate but equal" principle set forth in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case.
why: a public school in kansas didn't let Oliver Brown's daughter enroll in
Impact: striking down segregation in the nation's public schools provided a major catalyst for the civil rights movement, making possible advances in desegregating housing, public accommodations, and institutions of higher education.