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Brown v. Board of Education: Separate Is Not Equal | Sherif Girgis

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🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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The 1954 Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education launched the modern Civil Rights movement. Sherif Girgis, Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, explains how and why the case has had such a lasting impact on American life. Get all our content ad-free on PragerU.com or download the PragerU app: https://l.prageru.com/45GvWlu Follow PragerU on social media: YouTube Instagram X/Twitter Facebook Rumble Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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began with the 1954 Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board

0:39.7

of Education. That the case reached the court was a testament to a nation's desire to correct a long-standing

0:46.1

injustice, and at the same time an indictment for allowing the injustice to have existed for so long.

0:52.7

Although the union victory in the Civil War

0:54.9

freed Black Americans from slavery, it did not free them from racism. Southern Democrats

1:00.8

soon imposed Jim Crow laws to deny Black Americans the right to vote and to segregate them

1:06.4

from whites. Even after large numbers of Black Americans served in both world wars, especially in

1:12.3

World War II, social and material equality for white and black citizens was far from a reality.

1:18.9

For example, schools across the nation were, for the most part, segregated by race. These segregation

1:24.8

policies had found their legal refuge in the infamous 1896 Supreme Court decision

1:30.3

Plessy v. Ferguson, which created the doctrine of separate but equal. That was the legal theory. It was

1:36.4

rarely the practice. Black schools were almost always inferior. That was still true in the late

1:42.2

1940s and early 1950s, and it outraged many fair-minded people.

1:47.7

One of those people was Thurgood Marshall, the founder of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

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