The Details of Brown v Board of Ed - - US Supreme Court

This is a lecture video about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). This famous court case outlawed segregation in public schools, on the grounds that it violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. It was a unanimous 9-0 ruling, authored by Chief Justice Warren. In the lecture I discuss the relevant of 1860s public schooling to the 1954 decision, among other things. This is part of a Philosophy of Law course. For an explanation of Plessy v Ferguson, the infamous court case the enshrined the doctrine of 'separate but equal' and which Brown v Board of Ed overturned: /watch/cllz2gRbziRbz

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