United States equal protectionracial segregation

Brown v Board of Education

347 U.S. 483 (1954)

JurisdictionUnited States

CourtSupreme Court of the United States

Year1954

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

State-mandated racial segregation of children in public schools, solely on the basis of race, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

Area of Law

constitutional

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