Theory of “separate but equal”

The civil rights issue became a domestic issue after 1954 after the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools violated the rights that were established in the fourteenth amendment. The case was that an eight year old girl had to cross Topeka, Kansas to go everyday to school while her white counterparts attended public school in their own town. The girl’s parents argued that segregation had negative effects on children and was based on factors that were intangible. The case that followed toppled the theory of “separate but equal”.