Brown v. Board of Education

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:United_States_Supreme_Court_case
gptkbp:amendedBy gptkb:Fourteenth_Amendment
gptkbp:category Civil rights case
Desegregation case
Education law
Landmark Supreme Court decision
gptkbp:citation 347 U.S. 483
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:date 1954-05-17
gptkbp:decision Segregation in public schools violates the Constitution
landmark decision
gptkbp:defendant gptkb:Board_of_Education_of_Topeka
gptkbp:effect Desegregation of public schools
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Brown_v._Board_of_Education_of_Topeka
gptkbp:heldBy Racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Brown v. Board of Education
gptkbp:impact gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
gptkbp:judge gptkb:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
gptkbp:leader gptkb:Earl_Warren
gptkbp:legalBasis gptkb:Equal_Protection_Clause
gptkbp:legalDoctrine separate but equal
gptkbp:location gptkb:Topeka,_Kansas
gptkbp:numberOfIssues School segregation
gptkbp:opinionAuthor gptkb:Earl_Warren
gptkbp:overruledBy gptkb:Plessy_v._Ferguson
gptkbp:plaintiff gptkb:Oliver_Brown
gptkbp:precedentSet Segregation in public education is inherently unequal
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Bolling_v._Sharpe
gptkb:Briggs_v._Elliott
gptkb:Bulah_v._Gebhart
gptkb:Davis_v._County_School_Board_of_Prince_Edward_County
gptkb:Gebhart_v._Belton
gptkbp:unanimousDecision true
gptkbp:yearArgued 1952
gptkbp:yearReargued 1953
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:school_district
gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
gptkb:Jim_Crow_laws
gptkb:NAACP
gptkb:National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People
gptkb:Thurgood_Marshall
gptkb:William_O._Douglas
gptkb:activist
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4