Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County

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civil rights case court case school desegregation case

Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County was a landmark civil rights case challenging racial segregation in Virginia’s public schools that became one of the five cases consolidated into the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	civil rights case → court case → school desegregation case →
aim	to end racially segregated public schools in Prince Edward County → to obtain equal educational opportunities for Black students →
associatedInstitution	Robert Russa Moton High School →
consolidatedInto	Brown v. Board of Education →
constitutionalProvisionInvoked	Equal Protection Clause → Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution →
country	United States →
county	Prince Edward County →
court	United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia →
decisionYear	1952 →
defendant	County School Board of Prince Edward County → Superintendent of Schools of Prince Edward County →
field	civil rights law → constitutional law → education law →
historicalEra	Civil Rights Movement →
impact	advanced school desegregation in the United States → became a key component of Brown v. Board of Education →
jurisdiction	Commonwealth of Virginia → United States →
laterReviewedBy	Supreme Court of the United States →
leadOrganization	NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund →
legalDoctrineChallenged	separate but equal →
legalIssue	Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment → constitutionality of segregated schools → racial segregation in public schools →
location	Farmville, Virginia → Prince Edward County, Virginia →
oneOfCasesIn	Brown v. Board of Education →
originatedFrom	student strike at Robert Russa Moton High School →
partOf	Brown v. Board of Education →
plaintiff	Black students of Prince Edward County → Dorothy E. Davis →
precedentChallenged	Plessy v. Ferguson →
relatedCase	Bolling v. Sharpe → Briggs v. Elliott → Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka → Gebhart v. Belton →
representedBy	NAACP attorneys →
significance	contributed to the Supreme Court’s ruling that segregated public schools are unconstitutional →
state	Virginia →
subjectMatter	civil rights of African Americans → public education → school segregation →
timePeriod	early 1950s →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Briggs v. Elliott → Brown v. Board of Education → Gebhart v. Belton →	relatedCase
Robert Russa Moton High School →	associatedWith
Prince Edward County, Virginia →	associatedWithCourtCase
Brown v. Board of Education →	consolidatedFrom
Robert Russa Moton High School →	legalCase
County School Board of Prince Edward County →	partyToCase