1) Brown v. Board of Education: In 1951, Topeka, Kansas, Linda had to walk 20 blocks to Munro school even though there was another elementary school just seven blocks away from her house. Linda's parents and several others tried enrolling their kids in the much closer Sumner elementary. They weren’t allowed to go there because Sumner was a school for whites and Monroe was a school for black kids. Linda was a child during the reign of Jim Crow laws and separate-but-equal. Unfortunately, these two schools were separate, but definitely not equal.
Discrimination against blacks was happening in both the North and the South equally. While the Plessy vs. Ferguson case declared facilities were to be “separate but equal”, they were separate and unequal for 60 years. In Document C, there is a water fountain where one side is for whites, while the other side is for colored. This only created more tension between whites and blacks, and made the fight even harder for everyone to be treated equally. African Americans will always get the run down part of the bus and the dirtier water fountain.
In the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Stacey’s perspective of friendship with T.J. and Jeremy is unique and this affects the decisions he makes in Chapter 7. Stacey allows T.J. to do almost anything around him, even though T.J. is rude and naughty. But, T.J. is still Stacey’s best friend. Stacey is pretty rude to Jeremy even though Jeremy is super nice to the Logans and T.J.’s family. Stacey’s friendship with these two boys are very different.
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.
Racism and discrimination have been and continue to cause injustices around the world. One example of this that seems to keep coming back is the Scottsboro Boys case. This case took place in the 1930’s, but continues to impact society even today. Nine young black men were falsely accused of raping on a freight train over a fight with a group of white men. The case of the Scottsboro Boys was an unfair case that greatly influenced the civil rights movement and the society we live in today.
These actions extended until 1964 when a colored man by the name of Oliver Brown (Brown V.Board of Education) went to court because his daughter had to walk miles and miles to get to the closest colored school. “The Plessy v. Ferguson decision that legalized the practices of “separate but equal”. In the Plessy decision, the
Many African American Children had to walk long distance to their school just because they couldn’t attend the white schools this is where the Brown vs. Board of education came in. An African American man whose daughter Linda faced a long commute to school every day. Linda had been denied admission to an all white neighborhood school just five blocks from her house. The case became a class action suit involving five states, consolidated under Brown once they reached the Supreme Court. The two lead attorneys were Charles H. Houston and Thurgood Marshall who fought for this case, the architects of the NAACP's legal strategies.
Courage can be found where it is least expected. In her book, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor uses Cassie as an example courage. Courage is the ability to do something, even though you are frightened of doing it, which Cassie shows a lot throughout the book. Cassie is a little girl, who is very smart, sassy, and courageous. She stands up for what she believes and helps others that need a voice.
“Buses: All passenger stations shall have separate waiting rooms and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races. Railroads: The conductor of each passenger train is authorized to assign each passenger to the car designated for the race to which such passenger belongs. Restaurants: It shall be unlawful to conduct a restaurant or other place for the serving of food in the city, at which white and colored people are served in the same room.” - jacksonsun.com. African Americans started to become very frustrated about the way they were being treated and discriminated.
The Scottsboro Boys were nine black boys people blamed in Alabama for assaulting two white ladies on a train in 1931. The cases from this occurrence managed prejudice and the privilege to a reasonable trial. The cases incorporated a lynch swarm before the suspects had been arraigned, every white jurie, surged trials, and problematic crowds. It is refered to as an illustration of a general unnatural birth cycle of equity in the United States legitimate framework.
Injustice The Scottsboro Case shed light on the racial practices expressed in law that made a great impact on the legal system today. The actual victims of the Case did not receive a fair trial due to the color of their skin. The ones who played the victims planned the crime, and their stories made no sense. But like many of the trials during the time it wasn’t based on the actual evidence that was found,or even the defendants ' stories.
In the case of Brown vs Board of Education a black girl was forced to walk eight blocks away to a poor black only school, while a nice white one was two blocks away, this started a revolution; according to “Civil Rights Movement.” Neuse River | NCpedia.org “1957 North Carolina admitted only 11 black students...all-white schools... North Carolina... Pearsall Plan...
Black students were receiving education, but they were in impecunious and unmannerly conditions that were not acceptable. Additionally, they had to travel an absurd amount of miles to reach their place of education. A Black family in Topeka, Kansas, had a daughter who was placed into a black school that was located far away from their home. This was unfair because they had schools near them, but they were all
This led to “white only” and “no blacks allowed” signs posted every where and on everything. Nothing was changing for the better, instead, simply ignoring the fact that the white race was still treating the black race unfairly after they had been given their rights. It was not until that one family was tired of their little girl walking far and unsafe distances to her “black only” school because she was not allowed to go the white school a couple blocks away. This sparked the Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas court trial in 1954. This trial was a voice that finally rose from the silence and spoke for every black person fighting for their rights.
They later won the case, but not much was done to change the education for blacks; we know this as a similar event has happened during the white backlash eg the admission of the 9
