Board of Education is that in separating the races in schools, a perception of inferiority arose among black Americans," said Madison. "What was determined by the Court in Brown v. In that decision, the Court had argued that separate public facilities of equal quality do not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Ferguson, which had established the doctrine of "separate but equal." The unanimous decision of the Court overturned the 1896 case of Plessy v. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Board of Education, the Supreme Court decreed, "in the field of public education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark decision of the U.S Supreme Court in 1954 to end racial segregation in public schools, which was "very important in reshaping the social structure of this country," according to Otis Madison, a lecturer in UCSB's Department of Black Studies who teaches courses in constitutional law and the civil rights movement.
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