The wave of decolonization that followed World War II placed America’s race relations under greater scrutiny, a reality that the Soviet Union sought to exploit as it looked to make ideological inroads across Africa and Asia. While that decision marked an important milestone for social justice in the United States, it also had important foreign policy consequences.
Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. On May 17, 1954, America’s highest judicial body unanimously rendered one of its most famous verdicts: The Supreme Court decided to consider all of the cases together, taking an issue of school segregation that had largely been considered on an ad hoc, subnational basis, and thrusting it into the national spotlight.
The plaintiffs won in Delaware, but the Delaware State Board of Education appealed the plaintiffs in the other four jurisdictions lost, but they, too, appealed.
The case actually combined five separate cases - four from states (Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, and Virginia) and one from Washington, DC - that had challenged segregation in public schools. Board of Education offers important lessons. As the United States seeks to renew the power of its domestic example in face of an increasingly capable and confident China - often joined by Russia in spotlighting the underperformance and shortcomings of democracies - the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Brown v.
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