Events that Lead to Brown vs Board of Education Decision

By gkelly
  • Period: to

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    This case established that seperate facilities for blacks and whites on trains was constitutional. This would later be expanded to schools and other areas of life.
  • Period: to

    Gong Lum v. Rice

    Court uses "seperate, but equal" precedent to send a Chinese-American girl to a black school to keep her out of a white school.
  • Period: to

    NAACP

    The NAACP starts it's attack on segregation and young Thurgood Marshall is on hand.

  • Brown v. Board filed

    On this date the case was filed in Federal district court in Kansas

  • Justice Warren

    The senate confirms Earl Warren as Chief Justice in March. He was key to the decision.

  • Brown v. Board at Supreme Court

    Plessy v. Ferguson is overturned and segregation becomes illegal.