Brown V. Board Of Education Case Study

May 17, 1954, the federal Supreme Court announced its decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” the Court ruled unanimously, declaring that they violated the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision overturned the policy of “separate but Equal,” which had become accustomed by a majority of citizens since 1896, when the decision of Plessy v. Ferguson was passed. The Brown ruling was the outcome of decades of effort by the N.A.A.C.P. - and today has developed into a customary policy. It did not seem expected at the time and the fact that the decision was a unanimous vote was little short of a miracle.

Journalist Paige M. Prieditis reflects on how the

This term was the reality of millions of African Americans living in the United States of American in the 1950s. An interview conducted by Emily Crosby in Hyattsville, Maryland, 2013-06-28 provides a valuable insight into the perspective of a group of African Americans students who staged a walkout in 1951 at the all black, segregated Adkin High School in Kinston, North Carolina, to protest unequal conditions. “Three years before the Brown v. the Board decision, African American students in a civics class at the segregated black Adkin High school in Kinston North Caroline, discussed what features an ideal school should have.” They had later realized that the local white high school had everything they had spoken about and imagined as their ideal school. And Without the aid from any adults, these young students challenged the local school board about the inequality of local schools. The board disregarded their request for more funding, the students did not give up they met to plan what they would do next about racial segregation. Former student John Dudley recalled, “So, that week, leading to Monday, we strategized. And we had everybody on board, 720 students. We told them not to tell your parents or your teacher what’s going on. And do you believe to this day, 2013, nobody has ever told me that an adult knew what was going on” The students chose a coded phrase that was read during the school’s morning notices. “All students at in the school walked out, picked up signs that had been made in advance, and marched downtown to protest.” The students took a stand against the inequality of racially segregated schools and refused to go back to school for a whole week unless they were give the equal funding to the local white schools. “Eighteen months later, Adkins