Brown v. Board of Education Racial equality for African Americans, or people of color, has been a controversial topic ever since slavery started. Blacks were always seen as inferior to the superior white male and were treated poorly with “no right” to stand up and fight back. Though slavery did end in 1865 with the Thirteenth Amendment, the fight for equality had just begun. In 1896, the supreme court ruled, following the Plessy v. Ferguson case, in favor of the constitutional segregation, “separate but equal”. This led to “white only” and “no blacks allowed” signs posted every where and on everything. Nothing was changing for the better, instead, simply ignoring the fact that the white race was still treating the black race unfairly after they had been given their rights. It was not until that one family was tired of their little girl walking far and unsafe distances to her “black only” school because she was not allowed to go the white school a couple blocks away. This sparked the Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas court trial in 1954. This trial was a voice that finally rose from the silence and spoke for every black person fighting for their rights. Dwight Eisenhower believed that the Supreme COurt Decision set back progress in the South at least fifteen years. I believe …show more content…
Goluboff, she claims that the civil rights claims of the time were “the economic complaints of black workers rather than the complaints about segregated education”. Though this might be true, it took the discussion of the segregated schools to allow those to speak upon the other segregated issues happening all around them. African Americans were no different from the “superior” whites. They had their rights, yet were still kept out of jobs and public places because of the color of their skin. In the same passage, the NAACP emphasized the economic harms that segregation entailed. They were not complaining but instead wanted to have their role in