The Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education verdict played an incredible role in civil rights and civil liberties by determining separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional, ultimately resulting in education reform by ending legal racial discrimination in public schools.
The Brown v. Board of Education decision in itself did not become the sole catalyst for societal change given that a decade after the ruling “only 2 percent of Southern schools were integrated (Sperling, 2000)”. However, it enabled the civil rights movement to evolve when Martin Luther King began organizing equality for all. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was the first large-scale demonstration against segregation that led to a bill being signed ending segregated buses. Together the message was clear that the persons boycotting and if the courts are wrong then the Constitution must be wrong (Sperling, 2000).
Brown v. Board of Education affected the way society viewed the Constitution as the U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that school segregation is fundamentally unconstitutional violating the 14th Amendment. This decision marked the end of legal segregation in the United States.
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It additionally assisted in becoming a catalyst for societal change getting states to allocate funding, providing students with a fair and right to an education. The number of black students graduating high school is equitable to the number of white students, a more prepared youth living in an interracial society and lastly affirmative action can be attributed to the success of Brown v. Board of Education and its impact on civil rights (Pettigrew,