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Brown V. The Board Of Education Supreme Court Case

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How would you feel in 2018 if you were denied the right to attend a public school because of the color of your skin? In 2018 anyone is allowed to attend a public elementary school, middle school or high school as long as they are an United States citizen. This was not always the case though. Before May 17, 1954 white students and black students were not allowed to attend the same schools. Almost, if not all, schools were segregated with white students having nicer facilities, better teachers and overall receiving a better education. The Brown v the Board of Education supreme court case turned over this ruling and stated that schools must become segregated. This decision by the supreme court produced many different reactions from the American …show more content…

Linda was suppose to go to an all black elementary school, Monroe Elementary, one mile from her house but the closest elementary school was only six blocks from her house but it was a white only school, Sumner Elementary. Oliver Brown went to enrol his daughter in Sumner Elementary but was denied because of the color of his and his daughter’s skin. With the help of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP, Oliver Brown sued the state of Kansas. Brown sued the state on the fact that the schools were not equal and his daughter was at a disadvantage at an all black school. The law that stated schools may be segregated came from the Plessy v Ferguson case in 1896 which stated schools can be “separate but equal.” Unfortunately, the statement “separate but equal” was not followed and white schools had many advantages compared to black schools. Along with Brown’s case, there were three other cases that the supreme court looked over when deciding the ruling of Brown v. the Board of Education. These three other cases, which were much like Oliver Brown’s case, came from the states South Carolina, Delaware and Virginia. The supreme court ruled unanimously in favor of Oliver Brown and on May 17, 1954 all United States public schools were to be …show more content…

Fear that this decision would cause trouble and harm would come to people of color. At the age of 17 Linda Brown looks back on the case ruling and claims, “I didn’t talk about it very much, I guess, because I was afraid it would get back to someone who might make trouble.” Linda, along with many other people of color, became worried that white southerners would start trouble with black students integrating schools. Although black communities felt fear they believed that the hope outweighed the fear. This proved to be true as a report states, “the South is taking its first steps in public school integration cautiously, slowly and probably with fewer ‘incidents’ than most educators had been lead to expect.” With seeing that the integration of schools was going better than expected black communities became even more hopeful that equality was on the rise. Many people of color were beyond happy that the court unanimously voted for Brown and felt that hope would carry them through the difficult

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