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

On May 17, 1954, a silenced crowd of viewers filled the Supreme Court, waiting for word on Brown v. Board of Education, a combination of five lawsuits brought by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to challenge racial segregation in public schools. The Supreme Court decided unanimously that the current education denied black children their constitutional right to equal protection under the law, efficaciously overturning the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision mandating “separate but equal.” Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, illustrated perfectly the low regard of African American students in 1954 and when the Supreme Court made the decision to desegregate public schools, American history was forever

Ferguson case. Oliver and the NAACP didn’t stop there, they took it to the next level and from there his case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where he argued that “separate but equal” wasn’t actually equal and that African American schools were in far worse condition than schools for the white. The court announced that it would hear five school desegregation cases: Briggs et al. v. Elliot et al, Bolling v. Sharpe, Davis et al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia, et al., Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and Gebhart et al. v. Belton et al. All of these cases documented the lack of inadequate funding for segregated schools, which meant that many black children didn’t have cafeterias, libraries, auditoriums, playgrounds and other amenities provided to white children in newer schools. The Supreme Court’s unanimous Brown decision, handed down on May 17, 1954 and it determined that the Plessy doctrine had no place in education and violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote: “To separate blacks from others of similar age and qualification solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone,” and with this decision, racial segregation in schools became

Board of Education, nine black students were able to attend the all-white: Little Rock High School. It was immense the resistance that the Little Rock Nine had to face in 1957, due to the Governor, Orval Faubus activating the Arkansas National Guard in his quest to denied them entry into the school. That same day Faubus said on television, that he had done it to prevent any violence and preserve the peace within the school. The only way the students could enter the high school was with the assistance of 100 troops ordered by the government and the Little Rock Mayor, Woodrow Mann. That didn’t keep the mob of white people to verbally abused them but they kept their head held high and walked inside that school proudly. Gloria Ray Karlmark, one of the Little Rock Nine said, “It would put me in doubt about my very existence, some things are worth dying for. I stopped being me. I became what was a very important principle, every day in