Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark decision enacted by the US Supreme Court in 1954. Linda Brown was one of the plaintiffs during this case. Linda Brown's lawyer claimed that “separate but equal” public schools were highly discriminatory.
This argument set a discussion about the constitutionality of the "separate but equal" lemma that was accepted in the former 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, and which had allowed the proliferation of segregated schools, under the belief that, if facilities were equal in quality, such education system was not violating the equality of rights provision that had been guaranteed for all US citizens by the Reconstruction Amendments to the US Constitution. Brown v. Board of Education overturned previous Supreme Court decisions and declared segregation unconstitutional, giving a deadline to all schools nationwide to abolish such practice.
