Brown Vs Board of Education

May 17, 1954 was a date that would change history not only in the field of education, but in most peoples lives. In the year 1954 a cased named " Brown vs. The Board of Education " had been taken up all the way to the Supreme court. It was a controversial court case that tried to pass a law to un-segregate public school. The law was eventually passed, but caused mass outrages but also it brought people together. There was much segregation at the time, and

education.

Linda Brown was a normal third-grader that went to school in Topeka, Kansas. She was an African American girl that walked a mile to school everyday even though there was an all white elemantary school, seven blocks away. " Linda's father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her in the white elementary school, but the principal of the school refused"(Comens). Mr. Brown decided to take his problem to the NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). The NAACP agreed to help the Brown family.

Even though they started off slow, the case was getting bigger and bigger. Friends and family soon heard about this case and decided to help and support The NAACP and The Browns. It soon got big enough of a case to head into the Supreme court. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court on October 1, 1951. It wasn't just The Browns Vs The Board of Education. It was another five cases that were combined into one big case. The other segregated school issues were located in South Carolina, Washington D.C., Virginia, and Delaware. " Brown v. Board of Education was not the first challenge to school segregation. As early as 1849, African Americans filed suit against

t an educational system that mandated racial segregation, in the case of Roberts v. City of Boston"(Wisneski).

The Fourteenth Amendmant states that " No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.". Segregating Public Schools is something that goes against

t what the Constitution states. The case used this against

the Board of Education and it worked well.

On May 17, 1954 was the day that Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision. That not only the school in Topeka Kansas was going to be un-segregated, bust most schools all over the United States of America would be un segregated.

This decision by The Supreme Court of Justice was a decision that was accepted and denied at the same time. All the people that believed in segregation, and being caucasion was better then being colored, hated the fact that schools were going to be un-segregated. Their were outrages, strikes, outbursts, and even protests. But the protests were'nt peaceful one hundred percent of the time. They were most likely violent protests whenver