' Brown v. Board of Education' was a landmark Supreme Court case in 1954 that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The case was named after Oliver Brown, one of several plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

The unanimous decision of the Supreme Court stated that the segregation of schools was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which guarantees equal treatment under the law.

This ruling marked a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement and helped pave the way for desegregation and the fight for equality in education and beyond. Brown v. Board of Education was a critical step towards dismantling the legal framework of segregation in the United States and remains a landmark case in the struggle for civil rights and equality.