What US Supreme Court decision overturned the separate but equal doctrine in 1954?

The landmark case that desegregated schools was Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 347 U.S. 483, a 1954 case in which the Supreme Court Justices unanimously ruled segregation in the public schools was unconstitutional. Chief Justice Earl Warren, in writing the Court opinion, declared separate educational facilities are inherently unequal because they violated the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause.

This overturned the 1896 Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson which held the concept of "separate but equal" was constitutional Plessy v. Ferguson 163 US 537 (1896) The state of Louisiana passed a law requiring separate railroad coach cars for African-Americans and Caucasians Plessy who was seven-eighths Caucasian, took a seat in the "whites-only" car, refused to move to the "black" car, and was subsequently arrested The case was upheld in the lower courts, then petitioned to the US Supreme Court for review in light of the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause The Court, in an opinion delivered by Justice Brown, held that state-sanctioned segregation was constitutional, as long as the separate facilities were equal.As precedent, Brown cited both the Civil Rights Cases 109 US 3 (1883), which determined the 14th Amendment applied only to states, but not to private individuals or businesses, and the fact that Washington D.C. Public schools, under the rule of federal government, was already practicing segregation in education.

Justice Brown further concluded that segregation in public accommodations did not constitute discrimination Justice Harlan, in an impassioned and prophetic lone dissent, wrote (in part): In my opinion, the judgment this day rendered will, in time, prove to be quite as pernicious as the decision made by this tribunal in the Dred Scott Case It was adjudged in that case that the descendants of Africans who were imported into this country and sold as slaves were not included nor intended to be included under the word "citizens" in the Constitution, and could not claim any of the rights and privileges which that instrument provided for and secured to citizens of the United States; that, at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, they were "considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and, whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the government might choose to grant them and The recent amendments of the Constitution referring to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments it was supposed, had eradicated these principles from our institutions. But it seems that we have yet, in some of the States, a dominant race -- a superior class of citizens, which assumes to regulate the enjoyment of civil rights, common to all citizens, upon the basis of race. The present decision, it may well be apprehended, will not only stimulate aggressions, more or less brutal and irritating, upon the admitted rights of colored citizens, but will encourage the belief that it is possible, by means of state enactments, to defeat the beneficent purposes which the people of the United States had in view when they adopted the recent amendments of the Constitution, by one of which the blacks of this country were made citizens of the United States and of the States in which they respectively reside, and whose privileges and immunities, as citizens, the States are forbidden to abridge Sixty millions of whites are in no danger from the presence here of eight millions of blacks.

The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law. What can more certainly arouse race hate, what more certainly create and perpetuate a feeling of distrust between these races, than state enactments which, in fact, proceed on the ground that colored citizens are so inferior and degraded that they cannot be allowed to sit in public coaches occupied by white citizens. That, as all will admit, is the real meaning of such legislation as was enacted in Louisiana and The arbitrary separation of citizens on the basis of race while they are on a public highway is a badge of servitude in violation of the 13th Amendment.

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