The Brown decision only overturned segregation in education

Evidence

In the 1954 landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, the civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall, who was also director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), argued that Plessy v. Ferguson’s doctrine of “separate but equal” was inherently prejudicial under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In the LDF brief, Marshall not only cited Justice Harlan’s dissent in Plessy but was inspired by it. Marshall had reportedly read passages from Harlan’s dissent to his staff as they brainstormed ways to legally attack segregation. And for once, a majority of the Supreme Court agreed. As a result, all legislation mandating racial segregation in education was finally overturned. But only in education. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 403

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Shows the piecemeal, harm-focused legal strategy that reparations law must transcend; the ‘only education’ scope shows why the harm framing was inherently limited.
• XREF: connects to: Brown v. Board outlawed separate-but-equal schooling as inherently unequal; Brown overturned segregation only in education, not other domains — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 403
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Brown v. Board outlawed separate-but-equal schooling as inherently unequal; Brown overturned segregation only in education, not other domains — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 403

Broader Connections

• Brown overturned segregation only in education, not other domains #corroborates (0.98) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 403