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Brown and the NAACP filed an appeal to the Supreme Court on October 1, 1951. The Supreme Court heard the case first on December 9, 1952. They couldn’t reach a decision. They heard the case again approximately 1 year later. The court decided that they would d ....

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.... educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.” The Supreme Court’s decision that separate but equal is not equal began the desegregation of public schools. The decision resulted in forced busing of students. Some students now have to travel extremely far so that schools meet their quota of African American students. This is reason that some people, including some African Americans, wonder why such a decisi ....