![]() ![]() ![]() They began to develop their challenge in 1950 with Topeka attorneys Charles Scott, John Scott, and Charles Bledsoe. The plaintiffs in Topeka did not charge that the schools' facilities their children attended were inferior, but that segregation itself did psychological and educational damage to black children forced to attend schools isolated from the other children in the community. In many states African American students were placed in schools that were inferior to those attended by white children. Board of Education of Topeka, involved a Kansas statute permitting racial segregation in some of the state's elementary schools. Supreme Court declared that "separate but equal" education facilities are "inherently unequal," and that segregation in the schools is, therefore, unconstitutional. On May 17, 1954, by unanimous vote, the U.S. ![]()
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