At the time of the brown v. board of education decision, possible answers: schools were segregated everywhere in the country. several states had laws requiring segregated schools. schools in nearly every state had been desegregated. segregation was common in the north, but not in the south.

Certified several states had laws requiring segregated schools.

At the time of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, (2) several states had laws requiring segregated schools, especially in the Southern States where the Jim Crow laws had been enforced for almost a century.

Segregation was legal as long as the facilities provided for both White and African Americans were equal. Nevertheless, the Brown v. Board of Education Case (1954) proved that “separate but equal” facilities were in fact, unequal; they were a form of discrimination that instilled a sense of inferiority to African Americans and thus it violated the 14th Amendment, an amendment that guarantees all citizens equal protection of the laws.