What Supreme Court Cases Have Influenced The Civil Rights Movement

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend." - Martin Luther King, Jr. The Civil Rights movement started in the 1800s. This movement was created to end segregation based on ethnicity, gender, and color. Several court cases throughout the late 1800s and 1900s assisted with the movement and brought justice to people that were reduced to almost nothing. Many Supreme Court cases have fueled the Civil rights movement: Plessy vs. Ferguson, Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka, Kansas, and Loving vs. Virginia. Notably, the first Civil Rights case that reached the Supreme Court was Plessy vs. Ferguson. The conflict arose when a mixed man placed himself into a train cart that was made for whites. He protested and refused to leave the cart,

Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka, Kansas, this case historical, because it completely overturned the immediate mindset of "Separate, but equal accommodations." The issue was brought up when a group of parents started protesting against the school board because they thought it was cause even more social unrest as adults. The leader of the protesters was Brown, he stood up for the dozens of black parents that wanted a better education for their children. He stated that "deciding cases that significantly affected not only race relations...." but also "the political process" and "the administration of criminal justice". The point Brown was getting across is that he and other parents needed a better future and experience for black children. When this case was reviewed they heavily relied on social data bases and research on what the affects of segregation are on children. In the fact it took 15 years to do this before the Supreme Court over turned segregation, in schools. After this law was passed, racially integrated schools were sought after as targets for harassment, yet people started to look and see what was happening in the world around