Brown v. Board of Education

Employment discrimination

Housing segregation

School segregation

Voting Rights

Thurgood Marshall

Earl Warren

William Rehnquist

Waren Burger

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of maintaining racial segregation in schools.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of desegregating public schools.

The case was dismissed due to lack of evidence.

The case was sent back to the lower courts for further review.

First Amendment

Fifth Amendment

Fourteenth Amendment

Twenty-fourth amendment

Separate but equal facilities were constitutional.

Racial segregation in public schools was inherently unequal and unconstitutional.

States had the right to determine their own segregation policies.

Federal government had no jurisdiction over state education systems.