Brown v. Board of Education: Ending the “separate but equal” doctrine
[ad_1] These United States: Brown v. Board of Education These United States: Brown v. Board of Education 02:53 In 1892, a mixed-race shoemaker from New Orleans named Homer Plessy was arrested for riding in a “Whites-only” railcar. Four years later in Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his arrest, and made “separate but…