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Brown V Board Of Education Essay

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Brown v. Board of Education Of Topeka is one of the most well know cases in recent American history. To start, not too long after slavery ended, it was not uncommon nor unjust to have everything from local businesses, to water fountains and restrooms be segregated. So, it is safe to say that the majority of American states had segregated public education; which was made legal by Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. This legislation stated that it was constitutional to have separate schools, as long as both, black and white schools were equal to one another. (McBride). By the early 1930s ,the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP) worked tirelessly to challenge the legislation that was currently in place. This went on until the early 1950s' when one man by the name of Oliver Brown, filed a lawsuit, because his daughter was denied the right to go to one of Topeka’s all white schools. “Brown claimed that Topeka’s racial segregation violated the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, because the city's black and white schools were not equal …show more content…

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