In each of the cases, minors of the Negro race, through their legal representatives, seek the aid of the courts in obtaining admission to the public schools of their community on a nonsegregated basis. They are premised on different facts and different local conditions, but a common legal question justifies their consideration together in this consolidated opinion. These cases come to us from the States of Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court. 495.(f) The cases are restored to the docket for further argument on specified questions relating to the forms of the decrees. 537, has no place in the field of public education. 493-494.(e) The "separate but equal" doctrine adopted in Plessy v.
493.(d) Segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race deprives children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal. 492-493.(c) Where a State has undertaken to provide an opportunity for an education in its public schools, such an opportunity is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms. 489-490.(b) The question presented in these cases must be determined not on the basis of conditions existing when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, but in the light of the full development of public education and its present place in American life throughout the Nation.
486-496.(a) The history of the Fourteenth Amendment is inconclusive as to its intended effect on public education. Segregation of white and Negro children in the public schools of a State solely on the basis of race, pursuant to state laws permitting or requiring such segregation, denies to Negro children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment - even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors of white and Negro schools may be equal.
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