Davis et al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia, et al.

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This case was one of the five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education, which challenged racial segregation in public schools. The plaintiffs were African American students from Prince Edward County, Virginia, who protested against inadequate and unequal educational facilities provided for black students compared to those for white students. They argued that this segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public education is inherently unequal and unconstitutional because it deprives minority children of equal educational opportunities. This landmark decision effectively overturned Plessy v. Ferguson's 'separate but equal' doctrine as applied to public education, mandating desegregation across America.