1. Brown V. Board of Education
The US Supreme Court case on Brown v. the Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas (1954), declares "separate but equal is not ok" in school education. The Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson was being used as a precedent to keep schools segregated. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, (NAACP), played a major role in helping with the cases of underprivileged schools. The Supreme Court Justices had a difficult decision to make, because they had to break precedent. .
Plessy v. Ferguson was the case that was being used as a precedent to keep schools segregated. The way America was at that time was separate but equal. Children in a "blacks only" school had to be the same for the "whites only" school. It was not only schools but in all public places that needed to be separate but equal. The only reason the Plessy v. Ferguson case was challenged was because the two schools were not equal. Money, supplies, and transportation were incomparable. Most "black" schools were deprived from being equal from the "white" schools. .
The NAACP played a major role in helping with the cases of underprivileged schools. They are the only people to take the cases of segregated schools. The chief counsel over the cases for black schools was Thurgood Marshall. He looked over cases in Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware. Just to be in the court rooms, the NAACP used a lot of their resources to be there to argue the cases. Desegregation was a path that they thought of not taking. The dispute was that not all people viewed desegregation as a good thing, even the African Americans. The NAACP saw segregation as a good thing but it has to be equal, and in truth that could not happen. The only way that schools can be equal is to be together so that there is no usage of favoring a certain group. That is why the NAACP decided to go as far to desegregate.
The Supreme Court Justices had a difficult decision to make, because they had to break precedent.
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Linda brown was black and black children were not allowed to go to white schools, her father, Oliver Brown asked McKinley Burnett, head of the Topeka branch of the NAACP for help. ... The Board of Education's defense was that segregated schools simply prepared black children for the segregation they would face during adulthood. ... Because of the precedent of Plessy v. ... Brown and the NAACP appealed to the Supreme Court in 1951. ... The brown decision heartened opponents of segregation everywhere. ...
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For instance in Gitlow v New York the issue of free speech was presented. ... Also in Gideon v Wainright a man who was charged with breaking and entering lacked the means to hire a lawyer. ... For fifty years the Plessy v Ferguson decision upheld the principle of separate but equal segregation or buses trains, and in hotels, theatres and schools. Then in the 1954 Brown v Board of Ed. case it was voted unanimously that segregation violated the 14th amendment's "separate but equal" clause. ...
Black fifth grader Linda Brown of Topeka, Kansas was not allowed to attend a white elementary school. ... Brown V. Board of Education was argued in December of 1952 by black lawyer Thurgood Marshall, who was head of the NAACP. ... The Supreme Court decision in Gayle et al V. ... In September 1957, in response to 1954's court decision in Brown V. ...
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. After the Brown decision made separate-but-equal schools unconstitutional, things began to change, albeit slowly. ...
