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Davis v. Prince Edward County Board of Education

1956

Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County was decided on Tuesday, July 17th 1956.

Davis v. Prince Edward County Board of Education was one of the five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education…

Though filed in May 1951, it was one of the five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education, in which the U.S. Supreme Court officially overturned racial segregation in U.S. public schools.

In 1951, Spottswood Robinson and Oliver Hill from the local NAACP filed suit on behalf of one hundred seventeen students. The Davis case was the only such case initiated by Barbara Rose Johns, leader of a student protest. It challenged segregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia.