What was the legal argument that the Court used to render the Brown Decision?

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During the 1950s, the United States Supreme Court, under the Brown Decision, ruled that schools should desegregate schools in the United States. What was the legal argument that the court use to render this ruling? Describe other instances of segregation that were commonplace as it relates to public facilities? Who was affected? Which group led the effort to end this practice? Was there any organized opposition to the action of the Supreme Court?What was the legal argument that the Court used to render the Brown Decision?
~ Legal argument was that segregation, even though under the Jim Crow laws it was supposed to be ';separate but equal';, was in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. The court ruled that just the fact that the schools had to be separate automatically violated the equal protection clause by way of discrimination, not to mention that the schools were far from equal.





~ Other commonplace segregation: public transportation, public restrooms, restaurants, and even the military





~ Affected: Victims were all blacks and other ';nonwhite'; races





~ NAACP was instrumental in ending this practice





~ Plenty of organized opposition to the court's action: In Virginia, Senator bird closed all the schools rather than have desegregated schools. In Arkansas, the governor called in the National Guard to keep black students out of white schools. In Alabama, George Wallace went to a college (I forget which one) and used his body to physically prevent black students in.








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