Brown v. Board of Education decision

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:United_States_Supreme_Court_case
gptkbp:amendedBy gptkb:Fourteenth_Amendment
gptkbp:category gptkb:Civil_rights_law
United States Supreme Court cases
Education law
1954 in United States law
gptkbp:citation 347 U.S. 483
gptkbp:date 1954-05-17
gptkbp:decision gptkb:Earl_Warren
1954-05-17
landmark decision
gptkbp:defendant gptkb:Board_of_Education_of_Topeka
gptkbp:effect desegregation of public schools in the United States
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Brown_v._Board_of_Education_of_Topeka,_347_U.S._483_(1954)
gptkbp:heldBy State laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students are unconstitutional.
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Brown v. Board of Education decision
gptkbp:impact gptkb:activist
gptkbp:judge gptkb:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
gptkbp:lawyerForPlaintiffs gptkb:Thurgood_Marshall
gptkbp:leader gptkb:Earl_Warren
gptkbp:location gptkb:Topeka,_Kansas
gptkbp:overruledBy gptkb:Plessy_v._Ferguson
gptkbp:plaintiff gptkb:Oliver_Brown
gptkbp:precedentSet desegregation of schools
gptkbp:principle separate but equal is inherently unequal
gptkbp:reargued 1953-12-08
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:requires 1952-12-09
gptkbp:subject racial segregation in public schools
gptkbp:unanimousDecision true
gptkbp:unanimousOpinionWrittenBy gptkb:Earl_Warren
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:United_States_(1945–1968)
gptkb:Eisenhower_administration
gptkb:Little_Rock_Central_High_School_integration
gptkb:White_Citizens'_Council
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6