Question

Which landmark Supreme Court case ruled that segregation by race in public education was unconstitutional?

Answer 1

I think you forgot to give the options along with the question. I am answering the question based on my knowledge and research. "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka" is the landmark Supreme Court case which ruled that segregation by race in public education was unconstitutional. I hope the answer helps you.

Answer 2

The correct answer is: "Brown v. Board of Education"

Brown v. Board of Education was a case that led to the enactment of a landmark decision by the US Supreme Court in 1954.  

The case was about the constitutionality of the "separate but equal" lemma that was accepted in a former decision enacted by the US Supreme Court in 1896 in the Plessy v. Ferguson case. Such decision allowed the proliferation of segregated schools under the belief that, if facilities were equal in quality, such education system was not violating the equality of rights provision that had been guaranteed for all US citizens by the Reconstruction Amendments to the US Constitution.  

Brown v. Board of Education overturned the abovementioned previous Supreme Court decision and declared segregation unconstitutional, claming that, in practice, it actually deprived black students. The court published a deadline and all public schools nationwide had to abolish such practice and to adopt racial integration.