S. Court Cases 155). The author of Brown v. Board of Education describes the first three decades of the twentieth century as segregated, but never equal, especially in the school system. Although state and local governments poured more and more money into the development of schools, those schools established for black students received only a fraction of the funds. According to Tackach, in 1910 southern states spent $9.45 per white child each year. However, only $2.90 was spent to each black child (Tackach 28). By 1916 the expenses for white children raised almost a full dollar, meanwhile, funds for black students lowered a cent. In The Soul of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois' study of African American education he states: The Negro colleges, founded, were inadequately equipped, illogically distributed, and varying efficiency and grade; the normal high schools were doing little more than common-school work, and the common schools were training but a third of the children who ought to be in them, and training these often too poorly. (Tackach 27) The black schools were inferior to those of white schools in almost everyway. Most of the buildings that were used as black schools were never kept in suitable condition. Many lacked adequate heating systems and indoor plumbing. Classrooms of black students were frequently overcrowded. Teachers of black schools were paid a salary considerably less than their colleagues in white schools. When it came to the daily curriculum, students in white schools were offered many more subjects, and were involved in many more extracurricular activities. Dr Hugh W. Speer, chairman of the University of Kansas City's department of elementary school testified during the Brown vs. The Board of Education cases that: For example, if the colored children are denied the experience in school of associating with white children, who represented ninety percent of our national society in which these colored children must live, then the colored child's curriculum is being greatly curtailed.
The decisions in Supreme Courts such as Plessy vs. Ferguson and the Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education decision all played key roles in our American Civil Rights Movement. ... By this time in 1954, the Supreme Court has outlawed school segregation in the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education case. ...
The great court decision, "Brown vs. the Board of Education," called for the integration of the country's public schools. ... Almost thirty million people owned televisions by this time so it was no surprise that America fell in love with shows like "The Ed Sullivan Show," "I Love Lucy," "Dragnet," and "Lassie." ... The Cleveland Browns defeated the Detroit Lions to win the NFL championship. ...
The great court decision, "Brown vs. the Board of Education," called for the integration of the country's public schools. ... Almost thirty million people owned televisions by this time so it was no surprise that America fell in love with shows like "The Ed Sullivan Show," "I Love Lucy," "Dragnet," and "Lassie." ... The Cleveland Browns defeated the Detroit Lions to win the NFL championship. ...
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's is considered begin with the court case of Brown vs. the Board of Education. ... When Oliver Brown attempted to enroll his daughter into a white elementary school because the distance to a colored school was too far, she was denied acceptance. ... Ferguson was undecided the court ruled in favor of the Board of Education. ...
Supreme Court declared, in Brown v. ... Of course, the Brown decision did not miraculously desegregate schools. ... Bibb County, Alabama, Board of Education v. ... School Board of Richmond, Virginia v. ... Before Brown, they had been segregated in schools that were under funded and had fewer course offerings than white schools. ...
