The United States Supreme Court, then nine old white men led by former California Governor Earl Warren, stood united in agreement with the position argued by the NAACP's chief counsel, Thurgood Marshall, who was later appointed to become a member of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967. Their unanimous (9-0) decision in Brown v. Board of Education ruled "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."As a result, earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 were overturned. The Court declared racial segregation imposed by law was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This victory paved the way for integration and the civil rights movement
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