Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Brown_v._Board_of_Education_of_Topeka
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:United_States_Supreme_Court_case
gptkbp:arguedDate December 8, 1953
December 9, 1952
gptkbp:category gptkb:Civil_rights_law
Desegregation case
Education law
Landmark Supreme Court case
gptkbp:citation 347 U.S. 483
gptkbp:courtMembership gptkb:Warren_Court
gptkbp:date May 17, 1954
gptkbp:decidedBy gptkb:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
gptkbp:defendant gptkb:Board_of_Education_of_Topeka
gptkbp:docketNumber 1
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 Racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
gptkbp:impact gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
gptkb:Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
Subsequent desegregation cases
gptkbp:judge gptkb:constitutional_law
gptkb:Civil_rights_law
Education law
gptkbp:lawyerForPlaintiffs gptkb:Charles_Hamilton_Houston
gptkb:Thurgood_Marshall
gptkb:Jack_Greenberg
gptkb:Robert_L._Carter
gptkbp:leader gptkb:Earl_Warren
gptkbp:legacy Foundation for modern civil rights law in the United States
gptkbp:legalBasis gptkb:Equal_Protection_Clause_of_the_Fourteenth_Amendment
gptkbp:location gptkb:Topeka,_Kansas
gptkbp:opinionBy gptkb:Earl_Warren
gptkbp:organization gptkb:NAACP_Legal_Defense_and_Educational_Fund
gptkbp:overruledBy Plessy v. Ferguson (in the context of public education)
gptkbp:plaintiff gptkb:Oliver_Brown
gptkbp:precedentSet Separate educational facilities are 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:state gptkb:Kansas
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Fourteenth_Amendment
School segregation
Equal protection
Racial discrimination
gptkbp:unanimousDecision yes
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Brown_v._Board_of_Education
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5