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Summary: Brown Versus The BOE

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Summary “Brown versus the BOE” For sixty year prior to 1950, the educational system in the United States of America was segregated by color gender. The schools were supposed to be equal in curriculum quality and opportunity, but it was not fully equal. In 1950, this equality of education became abundantly clear that it was not equal. This inequality became the focus point in this legal proceeding. In 1954, there were large portions of segregated, made legal by a previous court ruling of Plessy versus Ferguson. (McBride, 2006) In 1954, Oliver Brown, a pastor and welder in the railway system, decided to join a childhood friend in a lawsuit against the BOE because they would not enroll their daughter in a school much closer and not segregated.
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