what happened during the brown v board of education summarize the event
Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in 1954 in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. The case was brought by a group of African American families in Topeka, Kansas, who argued that their children were being denied equal educational opportunities because of segregation.
The Court's decision overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine established in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, which had allowed for segregation as long as facilities were deemed to be of equal quality. The ruling in Brown v. Board of Education declared that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal, and therefore violated the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law.
The decision was a major victory for the Civil Rights Movement and set the stage for further challenges to segregation in other areas of society. It marked a significant turning point in the fight for racial equality in the United States.