![]() The ruling essentially became the justification for the Jim Crow laws, which allowed racial separate in public facilities, such as buses, movie theaters, and schools. According to the Plessy decision, racially separate facilities were permissible as long as they were equal. Supreme Court had announced in a case called Plessy v. In the lawsuit, Brown challenged the “separate but equal doctrine” that the U.S. Her father, Oliver Brown, filed a class-action suit against the Board of Education in Topeka. This case involved a young girl, Linda Brown, who was denied admission to an all white elementary school in Topeka, Kansas. The case that would become the most well-known was Brown v. Belton (152), filed in Delaware and Boiling v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (1952), filed in Virginia Gebhart v. Board of Education of Topeka (1952), filed in Kansas, Davis v. Elliott (1952), filed in South Carolina Brown v. Board of Education as heard by the Supreme Court was actually a consolidation of five cases: Briggs v. ![]() The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown led to advocates going to courts to secure the rights of students with disabilities to a public education.īrown v. ![]() Although the specifics of the case are well known the enormous effect it had on the educational rights of students with disabilities is less well known. ![]() Supreme Court decision in the 20 th century: Brown v. May 17 th 2019, was the 65 th anniversary of perhaps the most important U.S. Board of Education (1954) and the Development of Special Education
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