Plessy Vs. Ferguson Case: Brown V. Board Of Education

The Plessy vs Ferguson doctrine implies it is, “merely a legal distinction without conflicting with the 13th Amendment”. The Plessy vs Ferguson was a U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation. In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in the Plessy vs Ferguson doctrine that racially segregated public facilities were only legal if blacks and whites were both equally welcome.

In 1951, a plaintiff named Oliver Brown filed a class-action suit against the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, after his daughter, Linda Brown, was denied entrance to Topeka’s all-white elementary schools”. Even after the Jim Crow Laws, some all-white schools still did not allow blacks to join.

Jim Crow Laws legalized race segregation.

Board of Education was one of the cornerstones of the civil rights movement, and helped to establish that “separate but equal” education and other services were not equal at all. In 1896, the Supreme Court had ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that racially segregated public facilities were legal as so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal”. However, Oliver Brown, in his lawsuit, claimed that schools for black children were not equal to the white schools, and that segregation violated the so called “equal protection clause” of the 14th Amendment, which holds that no state can “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The case went before the U.S. District Court in Kansas, which agreed that public school segregation had a “harmful effect upon the colored children” and contributed to “a sense of inability,” but still upheld the “separate but equal” doctrine. In its verdict, the Supreme Court did not specify how exactly schools should be integrated, but asked for further arguments about

Board didn’t achieve school desegregation on its own, the ruling fueled the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
By overturning the “separate but equal” doctrine, the Court’s decision had set the legal precedent that would be used to overturn laws enforcing segregation in other public places. Despite its undoubted impact, the historic verdict fell short of achieving its primary mission of integrating the nation’s public schools.
After all of these acts and peaceful protests, segregation slowly disappeared. Even though laws were made and the government tried to make things “equal”, there was still people that despised the opposite race.
In 1955, a year after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus giving us the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her arrest would later lead to other boycotts and sit-ins.
About 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, the debate continues over racial inequalities in the nation’s school system, largely based differences in resources between schools in wealthier and economically districts across the