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Brown V. Board Of Education In The 1950's

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In the early 1950’s blacks and whites were not able to go to school together because of segregation. Whites thought blacks were property and that they didn't deserve to go to school with them. Then the case Brown V. Board of Education was brought to the Supreme Court. Brown V. Board of Education had the greatest impact of any single Supreme Court case of the 20th century (Flash Focus 91). Atlanta finally broke ground by giving black people jobs. They hired black policemen and their names were Claude Dixon, Henry Hooks, Johnnie Jones, Ernest Lyons, Robert McKibbens, John Sanders, Willard Strickland and Willie Elkins (Patterson 2). Black people finally started to step in and began winning elections as councilmen in Richmond and Nashville …show more content…

Throughout history blacks have always struggled with getting the basic civil rights. blacks always tried to escape segregation by showing acts of defiance, big street riots and really big protests. Then whites that thought blacks should have rules to follow made the Jim Crow laws in 1877. Which stated that blacks could not go in certain areas that are marked off for whites, and they had to be followed by the blacks or they would get punished. It limited the physical and economic freedom of blacks (Anderson 8). Blacks could not enter any reserved places for the whites. Thee rules were so strict that blacks couldn't even seek help in white hospitals (Anderson 9). By the 1890’s all eleven of the southern states were trying to adopt laws that would keep the blacks segregated from all the whites. Blacks always grew up with the fear of being lynched. Lynched meant to get attacked by whites and hung, the whites lynched the blacks based on what they heard, they didn't care if the blacks were innocent, they lynched them anyways (Fireside 29). There were many blacks who tried to break the law, they were either lynched or arrested. At the beginning of the 20th century more than 100 men had been lynched (Fireside 29). Which showed that the whites were not afraid to kill blacks, making the blacks scared to do …show more content…

Board of Education Case, blacks and whites were finally able to go to school together. This case had the one of the greatest impact out of any of the Supreme Court cases in the 20th Century. Even though it had a rough start, Linda not being able to go to the school with whites to school, now there is less segregation in schools compared to what it used to be like in the 1950s. The Brown V. Board of Education was very important in history, now that you know the history of segregation, the decisions in the case, and how it impacted education. It's easier to understand why Oliver Brown took this case to the Supreme

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