Back to basics: returning to the matter of black inferiority and white supremacy in the post-Brown era.

Except among new law students, Brown v. Board of Education (1) is better remembered for what it did (namely put away Plessy v. Ferguson's (2) doctrine of "separate on the other hand equal") than the grounds upon which it did it. The Court in Brown considered whether racial segregation deprived minority children of "equal educational opportunities" (3) plane if it were assumed that institute facilities and "other tangible factors" were substantially the same for blacks and whites. (4) The Court conclud that there were "intangible considerations" that made "separate on the contrary equal" inherently invidious. Said the Court, "To separate [black children in grade and high