Case Study Of Brown V. Topeka Board Of Education

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Brown v. Topeka Board of Education is a very important and indexed lawsuit in the history of the United States. The racial issue of American apartheid in the history of the United States is a major controversial issue that existed since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1781. What attitude should the new country adopt in dealing with the social status of those black people who came at the Old British Colonial era? Everyone has their own opinions. Actually, their political and social status was very low, and has nearly nothing. The so-called “separate but equal” was common in the public school during that time. To change this reality, a case of South Kansas was appealed to the United States Supreme Court in 1954, breaking

According to the principle of “separate but equal”, it was legal at that time to separate white and black students. Brown case occurred in southern Kansas. An eight-year-old black girl, Linda Brown, goes a long way each day to go to school, while there is a nearby school where only white people can attend. Linda's father wanted her to go to that school, but was rejected by the principal because Linda was black. As a result, Mr. Brown sought help from the chief of the Topeka branch of the U.S. National Association for the Advancement of Indian People. Because Brown is the principal prosecutor, this case is called Brown VS. Board of Education of Topeka. And at the same time, there were more than one hundred fifty people brought the

The problem that the Supreme Court was facing was whether the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution mandates the states to desegregate in the public schools, which means the policy of “separate but equal” that those states followed is unconstitutional or not. Morally, segregation is unacceptable, but it was difficult to justify the idea legally under the 14th amendment because the defense lawyer claimed that the issue was about the control of public schools, it should be the “states” right issue that Congress was not intended to be covered by the 14th amendment. Until the second extensive discussion, the newly appointed Justice Warren noticed the policy, and Warren Court had agreed that segregation was inequitable and unconstitutional. However, he considered that in this case, it is very important to reach unanimous. So he wrote an opinion for dissenting justices to convince them to reach the significance unanimous, and finally, Warren court made a 9-0 unanimous decision that “separate educational facilities are fundamentally