Racial segregation in public schools and the controversial concept of 'separate but equal' were unanimously declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court on this day in history, May 17, 1954. The high court ruled 9-0 in favor of the plaintiffs in the landmark case of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
The only thing can be is an inherent determination that the people who were formerly in slavery, regardless of anything else, shall be kept as near that stage as is possible,' Marshall said before the high court, arguing that 'separate but equal' segregation flouted the rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. 'Now is the time, we submit, that this Court should make it clear that that is not what our Constitution stands for.' Marshall rode the success of his Brown v.
Alabama Gov. George Wallace infamously made a 'stand in the schoolhouse door' at the University of Alabama in 1963 to express his opposition to desegregation of the public institution, though the school had been integrated seven years earlier. Wallace then sought the Democrat nomination for president three times, in 1964, 1972 and 1976, and as an independent candidate in 1968, running on a segregationist platform.
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