THE 1970S 1969 1979
SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE
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Question
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The amendment requires that all citizens be treated equally under the law.
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The amendment explicitly forbids segregation of schools on the basis of race.
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The amendment says that all citizens deserve the same educational opportunities.
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The amendment forbids differences in quality between various public institutions.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits states from segregating public school students on the basis of race. This marked a reversal of the “separate but equal” doctrine from Plessy v.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Topeka Brown case is important because it helped convince the Court that even when physical facilities and other “tangible” factors were equal, segregation still deprived minority children of equal educational opportunities.
Detailed explanation-3: -It signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States, overruling the “separate but equal” principle set forth in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case. On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v.