The landmark Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954) settled the question of whether or not blacks and whites can receive an education integrated with or separate from each other. The case overturned the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, which established the doctrine of "separate but equal." This doctrine stated that separate public facilities of equal quality do not violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution which states that all U.S. citizens …showed first 75 words of 310 total…

…showed last 75 words of 310 total…any program or activity that allowed racial discrimination. Some people condemned the Supreme Court's ruling as interfering with state rights and sought a reversal of the Court's decision but their efforts were futile. The emergenece of the Civil Rights Movement also saw resistance in the form of race riots and violence. The Supreme Court was able to change laws concerning segregation but it was unable to change the attitudes of many Americans concerning race relations.