Brown v. Board of Education The racial segregation in public schools was ruled by the U.S Supreme Court and violated the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court refuses citizenship to Black people, setting a place for their treatment as second class citizens. On May 17,1954 the Brown v. Board of education came into play. Brown v. Board of Education brought the issue of segregation at schools to an end, while they were still causing other social issues in the world. African American children were not able to attend the same schools as white children in 1950. In 1896, Plessy v. Ferguson was a case that the Supreme Court was in charge of. This case rapidly segregated public areas were legal, as the public places for black and whites were equal. The ruling constitutionally approved laws barring African Americans. This is known as Jim crow laws it came down to buses, schools, and other public areas as whites. This created and founded the separate by equal that would be around for a very long time. The …show more content…
For example Oliver Brown is a plaintiff, whose daughter Linda Brown was unable to enter any of the Topeka’s all- white elementary schools. Linda Brown was in third grade, and went to the all-black Monroe Elementary school in topeka. She was forced to travel a far distance because of the racial segregation. Oliver filed a complaint to the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, in 1951. Oliver Brown said in his lawsuit “schools for black children were not equal to the white schools, and that the segregation violated the so-called “equal protection clause” of the 14th amendment, which holds that no state can deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws” (history, p.1). Oliver Brown's case was not the only one about school segregation. The court combined the case into one and put the unit under the name Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (history,