How Did The Brown V. Board Of Education Affect The Civil Rights Movement

“ If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds” - Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Activist. This quote perfectly captures the struggle and doubt that African Americans have underwent and overcome for decades during the revolutionary Civil Rights era in the United States of America. The African American population have faced a tremendous and unimaginable amount of unfair hate and racial inequality for centuries. Rooting back from the 1400’s when Africans Americans were brought to the U.S for uses of slavery this group of people have been controlled and degraded until they finally decided enough was enough, stood up, united, and slowly but surely made changes. The Civil Rights movement was a

Board of Education case took place in Topeka, Kansas from 1951 to 1954 and involved many families who were all trying to change the segregated educational laws that were of existence at the time. The case commenced in 1951 with Linda Brown a 9 year old elementary school student father who attempted to enroll in an all white summer school that was just a few blocks away from her home. One morning Linda walked to school and was denied entrance. This enraged her father, Oliver Brown and many other families so in February of 1951, the local NAACP filed a lawsuit against the school district. That July, the federal court ruled in favor of the Topeka Board of Education and its segregated schools. The case was later appealed in 1952 with other similar cases around the country and finally, in 1954 the supreme court announced a unanimous ruling stating that “ separate but equal” is inherently unequal and from then on segregated schools began to

In 1955 a 14 year old African American from Chicago wolf whistled to a young white woman in a grocery store. The white women presumed to tell her husband and that very night and he and his half brother hunted Emmett ferociously, beat Emmett to death, shot him in the head, and left his body in the Tallahatchie River to rot. Three days later his body was retrieved unrecognizable from the cruel mutalization and bloating his body had endured. His mother, Mamie Till decided to have an open casket ceremony where thousands of people saw Emmet and the horrific abuse that was inflicted upon him for something so minuscule. The importance of Emmets story would have never been recognized as greatly as it was without his mothers mothers incredible strength in taking her private grieve and turning it into a public message to the people. She wanted to show the nation the unjust and inhumane acts of violence that were alive and hoped with her little boys tragic story change would be