Title: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Thesis: The Oliver Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case not only allowed integration in schools but it influenced the constitution towards equal protection and catalyzed future desegregation.
I. Introduction:
a. Description: Oliver Brown argued that although schooling was provided, it wasn’t equal because it was violating the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution.
b. Thesis: The Oliver Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case not only allowed integration in schools but it influenced the constitution towards equal protection and catalyzed future desegregation.
II. Background:
a. Schooling was provided for all children, legally the schools were said to be “separate but equal” because the children would be schooled without being integrated, after the Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896. However the schools did not provide the same quality and therefore violated the 14th amendment.
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When and Where: Therefore in the 1950s the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or the NAACP attorneys filed a class action against the school district of Topeka ,Kansas and amongst those lawsuits was Oliver Browns case. The school prohibit his daughter from attending a nearby white school. The federal district court dismissed his case, saying that it was completely from the school to deny her enrollment because although she could not attend the school she could go to a colored school and still receive an education .Although the court dismissed his case he was persistent and took his case to the Supreme Court in 1953.
c. Intentions and Purpose: Oliver Brown took his case to the Supreme Court because he believed that colored children like his daughter Linda deserved equal treatment when it came to their education so that they could have a brighter future. The case argued for equality and