Brown v. Board of Education

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, {{ussc|347|483|1954}} was a landmark case of the United States Supreme Court which explicitly outlawed de jure racial segregation of public education facilities (legal establishment of separate government-run schools for blacks and whites), ruling so on the grounds that the doctrine of "separate but equal" public education could never truly provide black Americans with facilities of the same standards available to white Americans. A companion case dealt with the constitutionality of segregation in the District of Columbia, (not a state and therefore not subject to the Fourteenth Amendment), Bolling v. Sharpe, {{ussc|347|497|1954}}.

External links

• Full text of the decision courtesy of Findlaw.com
• Past Imperfect: Brown's Overlooked Architect
• Library of Virginia
• Brown V Board of Education National Historic Site (US Park Service)
• Brown Foundation website
• Interactive map of important Topeka locations involved in the Brown case including Linda Brown's home, bus stop, segregated school and proposed white school.