The Fourteenth Amendment is the constitutional amendment that affords black citizens “equal protection of the laws” and was set in place to protect the rights of all citizens. Plessy v Ferguson adopted the “separate but equal” doctrine which granted equal treatment in separate facilities. These cases found that all “tangible factors” are equal in respect to the buildings, curricula, and qualifications of teachers. Delaware adhered to the doctrine but ordered that plaintiffs be admitted to white schools because of they were superior to that of the Negro schools. Education is required for the most basic public responsibilities and therefore the most important function of state and local governments. It is the state and local governments job to provide an equal education to all students. …show more content…
They were not being given the same benefits as white children the same age. The “separate but equal” doctrine of the Plessy v Ferguson case simply did not make the separate education facilities equal just because it stated that they