He believed it was not fair to black boys in particular and to black communities in common. Not only did children have to walk long distances, cross the dangerous railway just to get to the bus stop to go to school, but black society was also treated differently than whites in public places. In any case, not only at the local but also at the governmental level, the rights of blacks who were protected by the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment were violated. On the other hand, the school argued that the Supreme Court had clearly determined that separate but equal was constitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment (“The Supreme Court Decision that Changed a Nation, Brown v. Board of Education”). The school used Plessy against Ferguson to defend itself. The dispute lasted until May 14, 1954, three days before the Court announced its final decision. In a unanimous 9-0 decision, the Warren Court decided that “separate but equal has no place in the Constitution” (“Brown vs. Board of Education (I)”). He had violated the Fourteenth Amendment which states that all are treated equally regardless of race, age, religion, etc. They also said the Jim Crow era was over and announced that the white-to-black divide was finally over. On May 17, 1954, Judge Earl Warren ruled that segregation was unconstitutional and violated the Fourteenth Amendment..