Imagine walking through dangerous zones, or having to travel twenty miles away from your home just to get to a school that was not safe for you. This is the conditions of the African Americans while segregation in public facilities was still legal due to Plessy v. Ferguson’s “separate but equal” doctrine (infoplease.com). Angry parents of these African American students refused to continue allowing their children’s education to be treated differently when separate public facilities were supposed to be legally equal. Brown v. Board of Education is the case that fought for African Americans education to be equal to the whites. The case was originally about five different cases that led up to Thurgood Marshall's time to stand in front of the judges with a case that would change American history forever. Ending segregation in public school facilities was not easy; it took a lot of hard work and many struggles to be able to get this case to the Supreme Court and even to win the case. Brown v. Board of Education aided the lives of many African Americans who barely stood a chance in the terrible schools that were inferior to the all-white schools.
The Brown v. Board of Education case was a compilation of five different cases (including Brown v. Board of Education). The other four cases included: Belton v. Gebhart, Bolling v.
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Board of Education marks an important time in American history. It stands for the bravery of African American students and their parent’s perseverance who so desperately wanted their children to have the same opportunities as the white children. It stands for the efforts of the many lawyers who fought for the rights of these children. With Kenneth Clark’s inspirational psychological test, the judges of Brown v. Board of Education unanimously decided that “separate but equal” schooling facilities were not equal. Moreover, the Brown decision led to the Civil Rights Movement, which outlawed discrimination and segregation