What are the main facts of the case? A. Children of color were denied admission to White students only schools under laws requiring or permitting segregation according to the races. B. The White and Black schools approached equality in terms of buildings, curricula, qualifications, and teacher salaries. C. Black children like Linda Brown and her sister, Terry Lynn, had to walk through a dangerous railroad switchyard to get to the bus stop for the ride to their all-Black elementary school. There was a school closer to the Brown's house, but it was only for White students. D. Many public facilities were segregated by race under the laws. 1. What amendment to the constitution was involved? The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was involved. The system violated the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteeing that people will be treated equally under the law. 2. What is the issue or what are the issues in this case? The issue regarding this case is whether or not the segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race deprives the minority children of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment in which its Equal Protection clause requires each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people within its jurisdiction. 3. What did the Supreme Court decide? The Supreme Court decided that state laws requiring separate but equal schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. 4. Why did the Supreme Court decide as it did? The Supreme Court decided as it did because that the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place in society. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. 5. What effect has this decision had on American society? The decision on the Brown case was truly significant because it overturned the separate but equal doctrine established by the Plessy decision. While previously the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution was interpreted so that equality before the law could be met through segregated facilities, with Brown this was no longer true. The fourteenth amendment guarantees equal protection under the law, and the Court ruled that separate facilities based on race were ipso facto unequal.