Brown vs. Board of Education Brown and the NAACP filed an appeal to the Supreme Court on October 1, 1951. The Supreme Court heard the case first on December 9, 1952. They couldn’t reach a decision. They heard the case again approximately 1 year later. The court decided that they would decided not based on whether the framers intended the 14th amendment to involve desegregation, but weather or not that segregation in public schools deprived African American students of equality in education according to the current law. They had come to a unanimous decision on May 17, 1954. The decision of the court as said by Chief Justice Earl Warren, “We come then to the question pres