The Brown v. Board of Education is one of the most influential Supreme Court cases in American history, because it not only expunged the “separate but equal” doctrine, raised in the Plessy v. Ferguson case, in regards to education, but it also changed the course of American history. In arguing this case, it was incredibly difficult and seemingly impossible to change the minds of the Supreme Court Justices in regard to race relations and segregation. In order to do successfully do so, they had to decide the route in which they going to go in their arguments, tangible or intangible factors of segregation in public schools. The plaintiff's attorneys decided to argue on the basis of the intangible factors segregation, which deems separate educational
