LAD #37: Brown v. Board of Education

The Brown v. Board of Education case had precedents set by the previous Plessy v. Ferguson case. As a result, when the District court ruled against Brown, declaring that the precedent should not be challenged, Brown and the NAACP appealed to the Supreme Court. Because of this, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Brown, going against the precedent set by the Plessy v. Ferguson case. However, it only outlawed mandatory segregation. Nevertheless, a big step was made for the civil rights movement.