[Jim Noble]

Plessy was not overturned by Brown, Brown was specific to children’s schools and was decided not on XIV but on “new discoveries in psychological research”.

Plessy was overturned by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

[DiogenesLamp]

The point remains that all the lawyers were lapping it up until it was overturned.

[woodpusher]

Plessy was overturned by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

You posit the legally impossible, namely that a legislatrive act overturned a provision of the Constitution as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Plessy (separate but equal) was reversed by Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 495 (1954).

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."' Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.