In this landmark judgment, the Supreme Court declared racial segregation of students in public schools to be unconstitutional. By overturning the "separate but equal" tenet outlined in the <u>1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision</u>, it signified the end of officially sanctioned racial segregation in American schools.
The "separate but equal" doctrine, which allowed states and school districts to designate some schools as "whites-only" and others as "Negroes-only," was abolished by the Brown decision. More significantly, by bringing attention to the oppression of blacks in the country.
Only 1% of black pupils in the Deep South attended schools with white students ten years after Brown v. Board of Education (1954). In the famous 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the justices unanimously ruled that racial segregation of students in public schools was unconstitutional.
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Ten years after Brown v. Board of Education (1954), only ________ percent of black children in the Deep South attended school with white children.
