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Scott v. Sandford was the Supreme court case in which SC ruled that the slave owners can take their slave into western territories. It negated the principle of popular sovereignty. This decision caused tensions on the issue of slavery in the US.  

Plessy vs. Ferguson was supreme court case in which the court ruled that the racial segregation was constitutional as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It came to be known as "separate but Equal". This case was important because allowed the segregation to become law in US. And after this Jim Crow laws spread across the US to discriminate against the African Americans.  

Brown vs. Board of Education was Supreme court case that US laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional as it violated the Fourteenth amendment. Segregation started to decline after this case.  

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The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas has been credited with much significance. For some, it signaled the start of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, while for others, it represented the fall of segregation. Even in the footnotes of the decision, however, the Court raised questions as to how much authority it had and how to proceed toward getting compliance. In the brief summary of events that follows, I have drawn primarily from Kluger’s study, Simple Justice.

The Brown decision was a landmark because it overturned the legal policies established by the Plessy v. Ferguson decision that legalized the practices of “separate but equal”. In the Plessy decision, the 14th Amendment was interpreted in such a way that e quality in the law could be met through segregated facilities. Jim Crow laws were passed throughout the South and they established separate facilities for Blacks and Whites in everything from schools to restrooms, drinking fountains to witness stands in courtrooms.

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