Question

Which of these statements is an assumption the Supreme Court made when it decided the Brown case?

Equal treatment exists in separate facilities when the facilities are equal.

Equal treatment cannot exist in separate facilities.

The existence of equal facilities is supported by the Fourteenth Amendment.

Answer 1

The Supreme Court assumed that equal treatment cannot exist in separate facilities.

Answer 2

The correct answer is: equal treatment cannot exist in separate facilities.

Brown v. Board of Education is a case in which the Supreme Court ruled that there shouldn't be racial segregation in schools in the United States. A previous ruling (Plessy v. Ferguson) would state that "separate but equal" was a valid policy.

The Brown case came to disregard this thought and validate the idea that there's no such thing as an equal treatment if there are separate facilities.