Brown Vs. Board Of Education Topeka In 1954

Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka is acknowledges as one of the greatest supreme court decisions of the 20t century (Alex McBride n.d 1paragraph) in 1954 most of the united states ad segregated schools the reason why there could be these segregated schools is because of the Plessy vs. Ferguson trial. This case was decided in 1896. With the case they decided that it was not breaking any laws to have segregated schools. The only qualification was that there was equal opportunity for schooling. Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka was one of the several cases that caused the segregation to not be allowed. The plaintiff, Oliver Brown, believed that the denial of his kid getting to attend this school was going against the constitution’s equal protection

Topeka had two elementary schools one for white kids one for African American kids. All of the said kids had to walk 6-10 blocks to get to a bus stop where they would ride to their school. The white school they were denied enrollment to would only be 5-7 blocks away with no bus ride included.
The district court ruled in favor of the board of education citing what the Supreme Court had previously decided in Plessy vs. Ferguson. The three district court judges also said there was no need to have a different school because other than the distance their transportation, books, buildings, and teachers were equal. However, most people knew that this was not a true statement and that the white school was far more superior to the black school.
After the district court had decided this Brown vs. the board of education Topeka went in front of the Supreme Court with four other cases stating similar stories. All of the casers presented were sponsored by the NAACP and one case was originated by a 16 year-old. Since the cases were sponsored by the NAACP Thurgood Marshall was a major celebrity representative for the. Marshall even went on to be a supreme court justice himself. At the time the people on the Supreme Court was Earl Warren, who was the chief justice, and the associate judges were Hugo Black, Stanley F. Reed, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Robert H. Jackson,

It being a 100% vote only shows how important this case was. It also showed how America’s government leaders wanted the racism in the country to stop. The one who wrote about the decision was Chief Justice Earl Warren. He stated “the segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law, for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting inferiority to the negro group” (Earl Warren, n.d, Page 1) he was basically saying that the segregation is already bad but when the law is enforcing the segregation it hurts the African Americans even more than ever. He also stated that “that in the field of public education, the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment.” (Earl Warren n.d Page