In Brown v. Board of Education, what was the plaintiffs' issue?
History · Middle School · Thu Feb 04 2021
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In Brown v. Board of Education, the plaintiffs' issue was the legality of state-sanctioned segregation in public schools. They argued that the segregation of students by race in different schools, despite the provision of supposedly "equal" facilities (as dictated by the separate but equal doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson), was inherently unequal and therefore violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The plaintiffs were a group of African American parents on behalf of their children, who had been denied admission to certain public schools based on laws that allowed public education to be segregated by race.