![]() ![]() However the court held that separate but equal facilities for white and black people did not violate the Equal Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, establishing the “separate but equal” doctrine as the constitutional basis for segregation this was nationally applied to all levels of the justice system (Federal Court and District Court). Ferguson, which challenged the constitutionality of segregated railroad coaches. In 1896 the Supreme Court held the case Plessy v. In doing so Brown ended the separate but equal doctrine precedent, set by the Supreme Court nearly sixty years earlier. ![]() Establishing Brown’s ruling as a historical decision by the Supreme Court, it held that segregation in public education violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The importance of the Brown ruling is perceived by many historians as a monumental stance for desegregation and a step towards integration, Greenberg expresses how it “served as the principal ideological engine,” for social change. Rosenberg views Brown as an insignificant case to the progression of the Civil Rights Movement, arguing there is little or no evidence that supports the claims that Brown gave civil rights salience, to the extent that he argues it delayed the achievement of civil rights. The significance of Brown as a motivating factor for the Civil Rights Movement can be evaluated through the importance of the legal precedent it established: pressuring political change and inspiring civil rights activism. ![]() Board of Education was a relatively unimportant motivating factor for the Civil Rights Movement between 1950-1963. ![]()
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