When: Argued: December 9, 1952, re-argued December 8, 1953, and decided May 17, 1954
Where: Topeka, KS
Decision: "Segregation of white and Negro children in the public schools of a State solely on the basis of race, pursuant to state laws permitting or requiring such segregation, denies to Negro children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment -- even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors of white and Negro schools may be equal. Pp. 486-496...Where a State has undertaken to provide an opportunity for an education in its public schools, such an opportunity is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms. P. 493."
Source: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0347_0483_ZS.html Creed, Lori. "Brown v. Board of Education." In Winkler, Allan M., Charlene Mires, and Gary B. Nash, eds. Encyclopedia of American History: Postwar United States, 1946 to 1968, Revised Edition (Volume IX). New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2010.American History Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE52&iPin=EAHIX033&SingleRecord=True (accessed May 21, 2013).
Basic Facts
Who: Brown v. BOE of Topeka
When: Argued: December 9, 1952, re-argued December 8, 1953, and decided May 17, 1954
Where: Topeka, KS
Decision:
"Segregation of white and Negro children in the public schools of a State solely on the basis of race, pursuant to state laws permitting or requiring such segregation, denies to Negro children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment -- even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors of white and Negro schools may be equal. Pp. 486-496...Where a State has undertaken to provide an opportunity for an education in its public schools, such an opportunity is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms. P. 493."
Source:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0347_0483_ZS.html
Creed, Lori. "Brown v. Board of Education." In Winkler, Allan M., Charlene Mires, and Gary B. Nash, eds. Encyclopedia of American History: Postwar United States, 1946 to 1968, Revised Edition (Volume IX). New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2010.American History Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?
ItemID=WE52&iPin=EAHIX033&SingleRecord=True (accessed May 21, 2013).