Topeka, Kansas, USA, 15e, Mars, 2014 Le site historique de l'école Monroe Brown v Board of Education, ce qui est considéré comme le début du mouvement pour les droits civils aux États-Unis. Brown c. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), a été un événement marquant de la Cour suprême des États-Unis, affaire dans laquelle la Cour a déclaré que les lois de l'état établissant des écoles publiques pour les étudiants noirs et blancs à la constitution. La décision Plessy contre Ferguson a renversé la décision de 1896, qui a permis la séparation de l'état, dans la mesure où il s'appliquait à l'éducation du public. Credit : Mark Reinstein
3872 x 2592 px | 32,8 x 21,9 cm | 12,9 x 8,6 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
15 mars 2014
Lieu:
1515 Southeast, Monroe Street, Shawnee County, Topeka, Kansas, USA,
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Topeka, Kansas 3-5-2014 The Monroe School historic site of Brown v Board of Education, what is considered the start of the Civil rights movenment in the United States. Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." As a result, de jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This ruling paved the way for integration and was a major victory of the civil rights movement. For much of the sixty years preceding the Brown case, race relations in the U.S. had been dominated by racial segregation. This policy had been endorsed in 1896 by the United States Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson, which held that as long as the separate facilities for the separate races were equal, segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment ("no State shall... deny to any person... the equal protection of the laws."). The plaintiffs in Brown asserted that this system of racial separation, while masquerading as providing separate but equal treatment of both white and black Americans, instead perpetuated inferior accommodations, services, and treatment for black Americans. Racial segregation in education varied widely from the 17 states that required racial segregation to the 16 that prohibited it. Brown was influenced by UNESCO's 1950 Statement, signed by a wide variety of internationally renowned scholars, titled The Race Question. This declaration denounced previous attempts at scientifically justifying racism as well as morally
