Brown vs. Board Of Education :: Teaching Education

Brown vs. Board Of direction As the urbane War ended and Slavery did, too, the question of African Americans freedom did not. African Americans had been given their freedom from slavery but not their freedom from segregation. In 1896 after the Plessy vs. Ferguson court case, the Supreme courtyard implant that segregation, separate but refer, in public facilities was not against the Constitution. make out schools for lows and whites became a basic rule in southern society. All that was astir(predicate) to change. In Topeka, Kansas there was a little girl by the relate of Linda Brown. She had to be driven five and a half miles to a black school when she lived four blocks from a public school. The school was not blanket(a) and she met all of the requirements to attend all but one that is. Linda Brown was black. And blacks werent allowed to go to white childrens schools. That was a controversial issue among blacks. In 1954 thirteen parents filed a class action suit against the Board of Education of Topeka in hope for equal education opportunities for their children. That and the desegregation cessation was the idea behind the case. It was the first challenge of the separate but equal ruling had been challenged. The thirteen parents were backed by more African American community leaders, the NAACP, and the NAACPs lawyer Thurgood marshal. However, against them were pretty much the whole south, many elected officials of Congress, and the Governor of Alabama - George Wallace. On May 7, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against segregation and was unconstitutional because it violated the fourteenth amendment by separating them because of the color of their skin. The decision a victory proved of significant importance. few blacks and eventually many started attending non-segregated public schools. It proved to be Thurgood Marshalls greatest victory and in 1967 he was appointed as the first black member of the Supreme Court.