Brown V Board Of Education Case Analysis

The abolition of slavery in the United States of America brought with it the need for ratification of state laws, as well as the mindset of the American people. Throughout American history, African-Americans were thought of as being inferior to white-complexioned Americans. This disposition presented itself in social, economic, and political affairs throughout America. Following the slavery abolishment, states and their individual citizens looked for ways to recapitulate African-American’s inferiority with segregated public accommodations, as well as schooling systems. This gross injustice led to the African-American community petitioning the courts to reverse previous court rulings. The Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education reversed

This court case became infamous because of a landmark decision that further segregated America by allowing “separate but equal’’ legal accommodations for African-Americans. In a scholarly article Mark Rathbone explains that: The court’s opinion left no doubt that the constitutionality of the provision of ‘separate but equal’ facilities for different races had a more general application. It specifically described ‘the establishment of separate schools for white and colored children’ as ‘a valid exercise of the legislative power’. (Rathbone)
Moreover, in an article titled “School Busing”, Chris Bodenner explains that that although the schools were separate, they were far from

Linda was a “black” third-grader forced “to walk one mile through a railroad switchyard to get to her black elementary school, even though a white elementary school was only seven blocks away” (Cozzens). This miscarriage of justice led her father Oliver Brown, along with four separate class-action suits, filed in four states by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), to seek revolution from the United States Supreme Court(“Brown v. Board”). Consequently, during the first trials the U.S. district courts ruled in favor of Plessy v. Ferguson stating that the plaintiffs had not been “deprived of equal protection because the schools they attended were comparable to the all-white schools… in almost all relevant aspects”(“Brown v. Board”). The outcome of this court case upheld the previous Plessy v. Ferguson case ruling cleverly coined ‘’separate but equal”, and further segregated “black” Americans from “white” Americans; but with the help of Thurgood Marshall and Chief Justice Earl Warren, the fight for equality would not end with this court