Brown was a consolidated ruling from four states striking down segregated schools

Evidence

One of the most influential decisions in the struggle for racial equality was the 1954 case of Brown vs. Board of Education. This case was a consolidated opinion from cases that came to the Supreme Court from Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware. The Supreme Court ruled that racially segregated school systems were “inherently unequal” and that any state laws from which segregation stems must be struck down as unconstitutional (Orfield 1983, 1). — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 4

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the legal backbone of desegregation histories and to Fourteenth Amendment equal-protection scholarship.