How Brown V. Board Of Education Changed America

Board of Education is a very important landmark case. This case addressed the constitutionality of segregation in public schools back in the early 1950s. When the case was heard in a U.S. District Court a three-judge panel ruled in favor of the school boards. The plaintiffs then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court went through all its procedures and eventually decided that “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal” ().

In the Brown v. Board of Education case there were two parties. They were Oliver Brown, Linda Brown, and their two attorneys, Charles H. Houston and Thurgood Marshall. The other party was the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The lower court was the Federal District Court. Their case was about segregation in public schools.

 Whites were making a good effort to equalize the two educational systems, but black children were still living in the effects of slavery so it would be some time before they could compete with white children in the same classroom. Case Decision The case decision was in favor of the plaintiffs. The clause “separate but equal” was determined to be unconstitutional. I agree with the decision made because it actually made everyone equal and created a place where people were not discriminated against just because of their skin color.

In 1955 a year after the first Brown V. Board of Education case Rosa Parks stood her ground in a bus. Making another huge impact in the U.S. Causing boycotts and protests, mainly led by Martin Luther King Junior. The case even paved the way for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which was then followed by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, both were monumental in the fight for Civil Rights. Private Schools even had to participate in the ruling also, In 1974, in the Runyon V. McCrary Court Case, the verdict was that if a private school didn't want to enroll a student because of race was violating civil right laws.

Board began because, a black girl wanted to go to school with white people because her school was so far away, her father decided to sue. Later, the Court unanimously ruled that "separate but equal" public schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional. With this ruling, it would guarantee this would be the end of legal segregation in schools in the United States, meaning blacks and whites can go to school together. This also overruled the "separate but equal" policy from the 1896 "Plessy v. Ferguson" case. Finally, this case sped up the expansion of the civil rights movement during the decade of the 1950s.

Brown Vs. Board of education Brown vs board of education occured in 1954, that was a court case dealing with racial segregation of students in public schools. This was a big part of civil rights movement to help establish the separate but equal in education. In 1896 Plessy vs Ferguson is what set the separation of colored and whites in all public places as long as everything was equal in the facilities. The law separated colored and whites from riding the same busses and attending the same schools known as jim crow laws that was suppose to stand for six decades.

Board including the future of African-Americans that struggle for equal learning opportunities. The Brown decision had sparked a worthwhile struggle to desegregate public schools and created attempts to make college education more accessible to larger numbers of disadvantaged minorities. This would allow minorities to learn and be taught in safe environments. Also to work and support their own families. Even though desegregation is not such a big problem as it was at the time the case was issued, the education of African-Americans is.

Board of Education case this combined several cases of school discrimination into one big case. Eventually, after more than two years and many studies on if racial discrimination played a role in how students learned the court decided that having separate schools for Whites and African Americans was violating part of the Constitution. Some schools and states didn’t think this was right or fair, they wanted to keep schools separated. One state that this issue was really big in was Arkansas. On the first day of school, the National Guard was at the school and stopped Black students from entering and there was a crowd of people who were yelling and spitting on these students for trying to get in.

In the first part of the film that I found interesting was Separate but equal thinking in America. Brown v. Board of Education was the architect in launching the modern Civil Rights Movement. Brown vs. Board of Education reputed the “Separate but equal” thinking in America. The Supreme Court controversial ruling stated that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal and that segregation was unconstitutional. (Let Freedom Ring)

Board of Education, such as the Briggs v. Elliott case that had been a main topic throughout the film “Separate But Equal”, the topic of segregation was ruled unconstitutional after they had over 50 years of Stare Decisis, or standing by a decision that had been previously decided, and fighting for equal rights that were supposed to come along with the whole “separate but equal” law that the supreme court had set in place back in 1896. While on the topic of separate but equal, the film with the same title discusses the issues that black people had faced with segregation. In the beginning of the movie, Reverend J. A. Delaine is tired of not being treated fairly, and seeing some of his students suffer due to unequal treatment, thus beginning one of the five Brown v. Board of Education cluster cases known as the Briggs v. Elliott case was a very important and influential part of the film due to the fact that not many, if any, racial cases throughout the state of South Carolina had been won. This film shed light on the fact that during the time of segregation, the 14th amendment “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. 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.”, had been ignored by many people in the United States of America since they had decided to segregate the country.

In William H. Chafe’s novel, Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom, Chafe used evidence from Greensboro, North Carolina to prove his thesis about resistance in the United States from 1945 to 1975. In Chafe’s thesis, he argued that America was resisting civil rights for free blacks. Greensboro was considered one of the most “progressive” areas in the New South and whites seemed to be greatly accepting of the racial changes in the south. Despite the fact that Greensboro appeared so tolerant towards change, there still was a large amount of resistance.

In the 1950’s through the 1960’s if one was an African-American one would have to walk three to four miles in the scorching heat to go to their all black school. Jim Crow laws were designed to segregate African-Americans and whites. Before, May 17.1954, the court would use the phrase “separate but equal” to justify excluding blacks from white facilities and services. In one Supreme Court case called Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, the Chief Justice and the other eight Associate Justices on the Supreme Court ruled that all U.S. schools had to integrate. Some schools integrated while other schools did not.

Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) declared that separate public schools for African American and White children is unconstitutional. This ruling paved the way for desegregation and was a major victory for the civil rights movement. In regards to providing an equal education I believe this ruling did help to level the playing field. All students would now be receiving equal education and facilities giving them equal opportunity. I do know that it didn 't exactly go down peacefully and many African Americans still did not receive fair treatment for many many years but it was a stepping stone to move education in the right direction.

Racial segregation has always been, and continues to be, a significant issue in the field of education. The 1954 ruling in the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education forever altered the legal structure of schools. Intentional separation of ethnicities was no longer an acceptable norm within the system of public education. Affirmative action was one proposal that ensured an equal balancing of race among school and work settings. Recently, however, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of state bans on affirmative action.

In the earlier years, fewer people could afford education. And the second being segregation, centuries of separation between urban and white schools have been mended by the ‘Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown vs. Board of Education. C- “Sending a girl to school was seen as irrelevant by many. When girls did attend, they went to separate, girls-only schools with different purposes.