when was brown vs education
Check local listings. Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Brown v. Board of Education (1954), now acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century, unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
In 1954, large portions of the United States had racially segregated schools, made legal by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) , which held that segregated public facilities were constitutional so long as the black and white facilities were equal to each other.