Brown v. Board of Education
In the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case (1954), the Supreme Court decided that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional, this way it aimed to protect their right to receive a good-quality education as white children received.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Being issued in 1896, the case advocated for the racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, trying to protect, somehow, that black American received a high-quality education as well.
Hernandez v. Texas
Hernandez v. Texas case (1954) decided that Mexican Americans and all other nationality groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Sweatt v. Painter
The case (1946) established that Sweatt, a black man who had applied for admission to the University of Texas Law Schoolhad and had been rejected, should be admitted to the University, basing on the Equal Protection Clause. The Court held that the other University for black people "law school for Negroes," was unequal to the University of Texas Law School in terms of quality, facilities, opportunities, etc.