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The most influential part of the majority decision of Plessy came in the wording where the majority argued that enforced separation does not stamp blacks with the badge of inferiority, because both blacks and whites were treated equally under the lawIn the sense that whites were forbidden to sit in a railroad car designated for blacks (Zimmerman 1996). In Brown v. Board of Education, however, lawyers for Linda Brown, a girl forced to walk a mile to a blacks-only elementary school, when a white school was only a few blocks away, presented evidence that separate schooling created an inferiority complex for African-American children, and was no equality at al. In May 17, 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren read the decision of the unanimous Court: We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other tangible factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities? We believe that it does...We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold that

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