Pros And Cons Of Brown And Board Of Education

A Right Made Decision
Not only the Brown and Board of Education was a prominent historic event in which it highlighted a turning point of the United States government, but its victory also proved how Americans upheld the true meaning of the American Independence Declaration that “all men are created equal”. Supreme Court’s ruled in favor of the Brown and Board of Education and against the states’ law in 1954 was the right decision because it reflects the important role and the great effect of the legislature in translating the laws.
Black people were extremely discriminated and heavily stigmatized because of the white racial stereotype prior to 20th century, especially in the southern states. During the Reconstruction period, even though Congress

Despite the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment, the southern state legislatures passed their own laws to continuously oppressing the blacks because they believed in their white supremacy. For example, they passed the Jim Crow Laws in the late of 19th century, that was right after the Reconstruction time in which the laws separated and prohibited freed blacks from sharing public areas and transportation. Because of many disadvantages, black people started to fight back the unjust law system and demanded to be treated equally even though it was not an easy task because of the legality of racial discrimination. For example, the Supreme Court set its ruling in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1892 that protect state racial isolation and the policy of “separate but equal” with the vote 8-1. In the argument of the majority, Justice Henry Billings Brown affirmed the distinction of race cannot be eliminated, and therefore, they cannot stay at the same place as the Fourteenth Amendment’s suggestion. In the other hand, Justice John Marshal’s argues the colorblindness of the US Constitution

Though Plessy’s trial failed to justify the equal social treatment they deserved, the unfair decision of the Plessy could not diminish the blacks’ prospect of their equal status in the society. For instance, the trial of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 in which the class action of black parents filed against the Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas. Due to the doctrine of “separate but equal”, black children were not allowed to attend in any schools that reserved for white children, so many black children had to walk miles to their assigned school even though there were nearby schools that were closer to their houses. For instance, a third-grader girl, daughter of the plaintiff of the Brown’s case, had to walked six blocks to the bus stop, and then the bus had to ride one more mile to her segregated black school while she could not be allowed to go the white school which was just seven blocks away from her house. As a parent who worried and feared of any dangers that his daughter might face, Brown and other black families together filed against the Board to request the justice for their black children. The case of Brown and Board of Education lost in the regional court due to the reason of comparable education; thus, the court agreed with the Board that the school segregation was constitutional. However, the Supreme Court’s unanimously vote ruled in favor of