Brown V Board Of Education 1954

Brown Vs. Board of education Brown vs board of education occured in 1954, that was a court case dealing with racial segregation of students in public schools. This was a big part of civil rights movement to help establish the separate but equal in education. In 1896 Plessy vs Ferguson is what set the separation of colored and whites in all public places as long as everything was equal in the facilities. The law separated colored and whites from riding the same busses and attending the same schools known as jim crow laws that was suppose to stand for six decades. Brown and four other cases related to school segregation all came into in big court case to the supreme court in 1952. Before the case took place, the justices were split up on how to run the schools segregation with chief justice Fred Vinson postponing the opinion that Plessy verdict should stand. But before the hearing Vinson had passed away, then was replaced with Earl Warren. “In the decision, issued on May 17, 1954, Warren wrote that “in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place,” as segregated schools are “inherently unequal.” As a result, the Court ruled that the plaintiffs were being “deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.” (History.com Staff. “Brown v. Board of Education.” History.com,

In May 1955, the court issued a second opioion to lower federal courts and directed district courts and school boards to continue with desegregation expodicouly. With being expected to be done in good intentions, the courts actions open doors to the local judicial and political evasion of desegregation. Some schools followed through with the orders while a lot of other southern states defied it which led to the Little rock nine where nine students had to be escorted to school by armed troops to school in