Brown V. Board Of Education Case

In Topeka Kansas, 1954, Brown V. Board of Education was a historic United States Supreme Court case in which the court initiated state laws stating separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. Before Brown V. Board of education, segregation between black and whites was the norm, especially in the education system. They were racially separated by schools. Segregation shed light onto the “Separate but equal” doctrine, the doctrine that pretty much gave a free pass for segregation by adding “but equal” to it to make it seem more humane and that black’s weren’t “fully” unequal to whites. We can confidently say that we are far behind the ideology of using segregation to keep specific races at certain borders between each other. But even though segregation is now

Many predominantly black schools still lack many crucial resources needed to achieve full success. The start of desegregation in US schools started when Linda Brown, a 9 year old girl was denied enrollment into an all white school. This disproved the “Separate but equal” act. Separating blacks and whites but giving whites better treatment is not equal, such as denying blacks to a lesser education than the white person. Linda’s unallowed access to school resulted in her family upholding a lawsuit against the board of education. Four similar cases that were brought in with the brown complaint showed it to the supreme court which was later called and known as Brown V. Board of Education. In 1950, the NAACP produced a legal team for the case. They brought an action lawsuit to