Was Brown's Declaration of Per Se Invalidity Really Out of the Blue? The Evolving Separate But Equal Education Jurisprudence from Cumming to Brown
Posted: 12 Jul 2004
Abstract
Brown v. Board of Education is often described as having reached the right result but as not having had a good basis in existing law. Yet, the relevant jurisprudence existing before Brown provided ample support for the decision. While the Court may have erred in failing to make clear the doctrinal developments that had occurred in the preceding half-century and instead in emphasizing recent social scientific studies, the Brown decision was nonetheless firmly grounded and eminently defensible as a matter of law.
Keywords: Segregation, Brown v. Board of Education, separate but equal, stigma
JEL Classification: I28, J71, J78, K10
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Strasser, Mark, Was Brown's Declaration of Per Se Invalidity Really Out of the Blue? The Evolving Separate But Equal Education Jurisprudence from Cumming to Brown. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=563263
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