In the Supreme Court’s landmark case, Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka (1954), an earlier decision was overturned. In the earlier case, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the doctrine of “separate but equal” was established with regard to education. In the Brown case, the Court decided that public school segregation, which had been a state-prescribed issue, was a violation of the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
Which was most likely a result of the Court’s decision in the Brown case?
Explanation
Though the Brown decision may have led to integration with respect to other aspects of American society as well, the most direct result of the decision was to impose integration requirements on public schools. One common way to meet the requirements was to transport white school students to predominantly African-American schools, and vice versa.
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