Oliver Brown and several other parents of black schoolchildren in Topeka, Kansas claimed that racial segregation of public schools denied black schoolchildren equal protection of the law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. On May 17, 1954 the court ruled in favor of Brown by finding that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. 

Appellants: Oliver Brown and several other parents of black schoolchildren

Appellee: Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Chief Lawyer for Appellants: Robert L Carter, Thurgood Marshall, Spottswood W Robinson, Charles S Scott

Chief Lawyer for Appellee: Harold R Fatzer, Paul E Wilson

Justices for the Court: Hugo L Black, Harold Burton, Tom C Clark, William O Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, Robert H Jackson, Sherman Minton, Stanley Forman Reed, Chief Justice Earl Warren

Justices Dissenting: None

 

From the book, Supreme Court Drama: Cases That Changed America. (Available from the online law reference books here)

 

 

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