Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Opinion
This document is the first page of the opinion from the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education. On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. This milestone decision signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in U.S. schools. Learn more about Brown v. Board of Education
The National Archives in Washington, DC, has textual records of Brown v. Board of Education and other cases appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court from lower courts in Record Group 267: Records of the Supreme Court of the United States. These case files document the Court’s role in adjudicating cases and controversies arising under the Constitution or the laws of the United States. Learn more about U.S. Supreme Court appellate case files
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Opinion. National Archives Identifier: 1656510
View and download the Brown v. Board of Education opinion on the National Archives Catalog. You can explore more of our holdings by visiting our online Catalog or by visiting the National Archives in Washington, DC. This record is located with Record Group 267: Records of the Supreme Court of the United States, Series: Appellate Jurisdiction Case Files, 1792–2021, File Unit: Case File for Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. Many of the records in this collection have yet to be digitized. We encourage researchers to visit us onsite to explore these records and learn more about the archival collections held in the National Archives in Washington, DC.