Question

How did the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision overrule the Plessy v. Ferguson case? Question 3 options: separate educational facilities are inherently unequal separate but equal facilities were often located too close together and created zoning problems separate but equal facilities almost always gave African Americans the better facilities and this was unfair to Whites separate but equal could be self-determined (voted on) by each state

Answer 1

Correct answer:  separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

Details:

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, decided by the US Supreme Court in 1954, extended civil liberties to all Americans in regard to access to education. Until that decision, it was legal to segregate schools according to race, so that black students could not attend the same schools as white students.  An older Supreme Court decision, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), had said that separate, segregated public facilities were acceptable as long as the facilities offered were equal in quality.  In the case of Brown v. Board of Education, that standard was challenged and defeated.  Segregation was shown to create inequality, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled segregation to be unconstitutional.