A U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the separate but equal doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. The case was influential in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education four years later.The case involved a black man who was refused admission to the School of Law of the University of Texas on the grounds that the Texas State Constitution prohibited integrated education.

SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE

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A U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the “separate but equal” doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. The case was influential in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education four years later.The case involved a black man who was refused admission to the School of Law of the University of Texas on the grounds that the Texas State Constitution prohibited integrated education.

A	Sweatt v. Painter
B	Wisonsin v. Yoder
C	Hernandez v. Texas
D	White v. Regester

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Board of Education (1954, 1955) The case that came to be known as Brown v. Board of Education was actually the name given to five separate cases that were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the issue of segregation in public schools.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1954, sixty years after Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that “separate but equal” was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Detailed explanation-3: -On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional.

Detailed explanation-4: -In Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The 1954 decision declared that separate educational facilities for white and African American students were inherently unequal.

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SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE