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Brown V. Board Of Education Court Case

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In 1954 the Brown v Board of education court case was closed. With the decision to desegregate all public schools, restaurants and restrooms. For nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was passed and the slaves in the south were freed they still were not treated like human beings. In the 1950s the Jim Crow laws is what held the African Americans back from getting into the workforce and the community's. There were many different people that were touching for the change of view of the African Americans. This made somebody in the African American community step up and many different people did like: Martin luther king jr, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Andrew Goodman and many more. The Civil right movement all happened because of the …show more content…

Supreme Court. The Brown v. Board of Education court case started in Topeka, Kansas. It started on December 9, 1952 in the small courts and lasted till May 17, 1954 in the Supreme Court's. This case started out to be just a small case to get schools integrated in Kansas. It ended up turning into something way much more than that. The Supreme Court was in agreement that schools being segregated was not constitutional. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th Amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. The 14th Amendment states that ¨no state shall make or enforce any law which shall deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of laws.¨ In the Supreme Court Justice, Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling. The attorney to win the case was Thurgood Marshall he was on the side for the NAACP. The NAACP was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People this particular organization fought for racial equality. The NAACP was founded in 1909 and has been trying to help the colored community ever since. He won the case for the student Linda Brown who attended a Topeka public schools. The Brown v. Board of education is know as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions …show more content…

There were many but some of the big name are Martin luther king Jr., Rosa parks, and Malcolm X. They all did big things for the African American community. Martin Luther king Gave the ¨i have a dream¨ Speech which gave African american people the power to stand up for themselves . Rosa parks didn't give up her seat on a Alabama bus which started the bus boycott so it can become desegregated. Malcolm X was a strong religious leader for the community. They were all import to the community. Everybody knew who they were. The were the best role models of their

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