ABSTRACT
On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court announced that racial segregation in public schools is forbidden by the Constitution. A year later, the same court issued orders telling federal and state judges how they should proceed in bringing segregation to an end. These decisions are known as "the Segregation cases". The Segregation cases combined five separate law suits, four of them relating to the schools of four states and one relating to the District of Columbia. The Court ruled in the Bolling case that racial segregation in the public schools of the District of Columbia deprives Negro children of liberty without due process of law and is therefore forbidden by the Constitution. Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. Segregation cases were in fact approximately as good as those pro-vided for whites in the same five jurisdictions.
