In this article, the benefits of diversified learning environments like schools, colleges, and universities are emphasized. This analysis embraces the theory of complementarity implied in Benjamin E. May's observation that no one is wise enough, rich enough or strong enough "to go it alone". Diversified schools are essential in restoring equity to the formal educational experience that, over the years, has tended to emphasize excellence only. Equity and excellence complement each other; one without the other is incomplete; each is in need of the other to be effective. The "Brown" Supreme Court decision of 1954 in the United States declared racially segregated public education unlawful because it promotes inequality among citizens who ought to have equal access to education and other institutional systems of a society. Examples of harm that has resulted from several segregated public policy-making groups are given. Finally, the many different groups that have benefited from "Brown" and the Civil Rights Movement and its focus on racial and socio-economic desegregation are mentioned. The article concludes that the "Brown" decision helped everyone and harmed none. For example, the proportion of white adults who were high school graduates in 1950 before "Brown" was 34.6 percent; today (2000), the proportion has increased to 84.9 percent. And the proportion of black adult high school graduates was 13.7 percent before "Brown" in 1950; today (2000), the proportion of black adults with a high school education has increased to 78.5 percent. The overall conclusion we derive from this analysis is that the "Brown" decision enhanced the education of black people in the United States and did not harm the education of white people. Actually, the "justice as fairness" doctrine helped both population groups.