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An Essay On Brown V. The Board Of Education

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Brown v. The Board of Education
The Brown v. The Board of Education case all started when a little black girl named Linda Brown was denied entrance to an all-white elementary school in 1952. After a few years on May 17th, 1954 it was ruled that racial segregation in public schools were unconstitutional.
There were a few cases before the Brown v. The Board of Education case that led up to the Browns victory in court. In 1896 the Plessy v. Ferguson case the Supreme court upheld a segregation law. History.com says in their article “Brown v. Board of Education” that, “...the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that racially segregated public facilities were legal, so long as the facilities for Black people and whites were equal”. The schools …show more content…

Segregating children by the color of their skin is unconstitutional. In the article ‘Brown v. Board of Education’ from Archives.gov, it says, “In this milestone decision, the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional”. If the children were all to learn equally and have equal treatment no matter the color of their skin, why should they be separated? The unequal environment black students were in was a huge disadvantage in their education and future. The article “Brown v. Board of Education” from history.com says, “... which agreed that public school segregation had a ‘detrimental effect upon the colored children’ and contributed to ‘a sense of inferiority,’ but still upheld the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine”. It was not an equal environment and children did not get equal opportunity. Even though the Brown v. The Board of Education case called for people to stop segregation in schools. Action to do so was very slow. The video “Brown v. The Board of Education explained” from the YouTube channel Harvard University says, “Which sounds promising, as if it meant to do this quickly, but in fact, many states interpreted it to drag their feet and go as slowly as possible”. This act was called the Southern Manifesto and it took a while for schools to treat everyone equally. Thanks to Brown, no matter how long it took, many schools were

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