The 14th amendment states “. . .No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States…” This means that everyone will have access to equal opportunities, and no state can take that right away. The United states has begun make progress in fulfilling the rights guaranteed by the 14th amendment by acknowledged that there is a problem, but they have not come very far in giving everyone equal rights and equal opportunities. The Brown Vs Board of Education of Topeka Kansas was one event that helped this country recognise that not everyone has access to equal opportunities. This case took place in 1954 and at this time over one-third of states has schools segregated by law. It began as 5 different court cases all about segregated school, but Oliver Brown's name appeared in the title because is case was the only one that didn’t take place in the south, and the courts didn't want it to only seem like a southern problem. When this case went through all the lower courts before it got to the U.S. supreme court Brown …show more content…
On August 8, 1965 the Racially Imbalanced Act was proposed, which would order any racially imbalanced school, andy school with more than 50% black students. Boston had 46 of these schools. However, the Boston school committee was very resistant. The school committee took the case to the Massachusetts Supreme District Court. The court ruled against the school committee. Lots of protesting happens between this time and the first day of school, the first day for court ordered busing to integrate schools. However the plan to use forced bussing is met by violence and protesting by both blacks and whites, and many whites who can move, or send their children to other schools to avoid the forced