Daily Quiz for August 1, 2007

The 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, reversed the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision that as long as accommodation existed, segregation did not constitute discrimination, establishing the doctrine of "separate but equal.? In the Brown case, which involved elementary education, the Court ruled unanimously that segregation in public education was a denial of the equal protection of the laws.