The Centrality of Brown Albany Law School - Government Law
Center CHOOSING EQUALITY: ESSAYS AND NARRATIVES ON THE
DESEGREGATION EXPERIENCE, Robert L. Hayman, Jr., Leland Ware,
eds., pp. 224-245, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009
This article is an examination of the Supreme Court decision in
Brown v. Board of Education. The Brown decision is considered by
many to be one of the most important and influential decisions
in the history of the United States Supreme Court. However,
fifty years after Brown was decided, some scholars consider the
decision to have been a failure because of its unassertive
nature and failed implementation. It has been suggested that the
court may have been better off enforcing the 'equal' portion of
Plessy v. Ferguson's 'separate but equal doctrine.' Number of
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