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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Brown v. Board of Education was not the first Supreme Court case of its kind. In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" segregation of public facilities was not a violation of the constitution. This ruling was considered constitutional as long as the schools for blacks provided the same education as the whites received at their schools; this was obviously not …

…complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment" (Early Civil Rights Struggles: Brown v. Board of Education) This event was the turning point in the desegregation of public schools, and the beginning to equality among the races. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a major victory of Linda Brown and her father, for minority education, as well as a victory for minority rights as a whole.