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The Davis case, the only case of the five originating from a student protest, began when 16-year-old Barbara Rose Johns organized and led a 450-student walkout of Moton High School.
The stakes were high, and one of the best-known lawyers in the country, John W. Davis, volunteered to argue, for free, South Carolina's right to segregate students by race. Defending Briggs was his one-hundred-fortieth Supreme Court argument.
The Brown decision reverberated for decades. Determined resistance by whites in the South thwarted the goal of school integration for years. Even though the court ruled that states should move with “all deliberate speed,” that standard was simply too vague for real action.
The 1952 Brown v. Board of Education arguments centered around a relatively tame request from the civil rights lawyers: That public schools should be exempted from the Court's long-standing "separate but equal" doctrine.
' In the Kansas case, Brown v. Board of Education, the plaintiffs are Negro children of elementary school age residing in Topeka. They brought this action in the United States District Court for the Diftrict of Kansas to enjoin enforcement of a Kansas statute which
May 17, 2023 · The US Supreme Court’s decision in the case known colloquially as Brown v. Board of Education found that the “[t]he ‘separate but equal ’ doctrine adopted in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537, has no place in the field of public education.”
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As South Carolina's lawyer John W. Davis left the court following final arguments on Wednesday, December 11, 1952, he was overheard telling a colleague from Virginia, "I think we've got it won, five-to-four - or maybe six-to-three."
