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Briggs v. Elliott
(Year the case started) It was the first of the four cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education. The case challenged segregation in Summerton, South Carolina. -
Gebhart v. Belton
The trial court ordered that African-American children be admitted to Delaware's segregated whites-only schools, and the state Supreme Court affirmed the trial court's decision. -
Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County
(First argued) The Davis case was the only such case to be initiated by a student protest. The case challenged segregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia. -
Bolling v. Sharpe
(the orginal argument date) The District of Columbia held that school segregation was unconstitutional under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. -
Brown v. Board of Education
It was the decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students and denying black children equal educational opportunities unconstitutional. The decision overturned earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.