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A Supreme Court ruling in 1954, however, would turn Plessey VS Ferguson on its head. The plaintiffs in Brown asserted that racial separation, while masquerading as providing separate but equal treatment of both white and black Americans, instead perpetuated inferior accommodations, services, and treatment for black Americans.
The court ruling Plessey VS Ferguson in 1896 had established that as long as facilities were of equal quality it was legal for them to be segregated. This applied to education particularly.
the one nearest to her. This was not "separate but equal". It was separate and known to be inferior. He, along with the NAACP, took the state to the Supreme Court.
black children could get to their school - though what these children felt once inside their school is difcult to imagine. The same type of obstruction happened in Manseld, Texas where Texas Rangers were used to implement the law.
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Read Warren's words carefully. What is Warren suggesting is the most harmful and