The Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional in the Brown v. Case. Board of Education, in 1954. With this new law, the law arising from the case of 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson, where the court approved segregation if equal conditions were given to whites and blacks. For
what was constitutional segregation, under the slogan "separate, but
equal", although in a few cases the segregated schools were really the
same (especially public) where resources and education for black schools
was very poor. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl
Warren made it clear that in public education, the idea of '' separate
but equal '' could not exist.
