Final answer:
The Brown decision does apply to the public schools in Washington DC because Bolling v. Sharpe was decided in conjunction with Brown v. Board of Education.
Step-by-step explanation:
The Brown decision, which refers to Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), declared that racially segregated public schools were a violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The decision determined that the practice of separate but equal, established in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), was inherently unequal. Bolling v. Sharpe (1954), on the other hand, dealt with the public schools in Washington DC, a federal territory.
The Brown decision does apply to the public schools in Washington DC because Bolling v. Sharpe was decided in conjunction with Brown v. Board of Education. Both cases involved the issue of racial segregation in public schools and were heard together by the U.S. Supreme Court.