Read the excerpt from Brown v. Board of Education. [T]here are findings below that the Negro and white schools involved have bee
n equalized, or are being equalized, with respect to buildings, curricula, qualifications and salaries of teachers, and other "tangible" factors. The Supreme Court is most likely interested in these findings because it hopes to determine whether
The doctrine of "separate but equal" was the dominant one before <em>Brown v. Board of Education</em> questioned this assumption. The government claimed that even though schools were segregated, all children received quality education in their own schools. When this was questioned, the Supreme Court wanted to discover the truth. Therefore, they were interested in these findings because they believed they could inform their final decision.
