Supreme Court Case Of Brown Vs. Board Of Education

Imagine there being a school four short blocks away from your house, but you can’t send your school-age children there because they are black. That’s exactly what happened before schools were integrated during the CIvil Rights Movement. Prior to integration, all black students went to one school, and all whites went to another school, no matter the location of the school. This was not only inconvenient, but could be dangerous for black students who had to travel long distances over train tracks. Eventually, parents started to fight back. The separation of races in schools ended with a case called Brown vs. Board of Education and it was possibly the most important event in the advancement of African Americans.

Brown Vs . Board of Education was a landmark of United States Supreme Court case in which the courts declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.The case was named after Oliver Brown. Oliver Brown had filed a lawsuit against Brown vs Board of Education in Topeka. Brown Vs Board of Education had taken place in Topeka, Kansas. May,17, 1954 the United States had handed down ruling in the landmark of the cases. Many cases was being involved because of segregation because of their race or color and it's sad.The NAACP chief counsel Thurgood Marshal was also involved in the Brown Vs Board of Education case,

In the case people were getting desegregated because of their race such as white or black. The Courts did not find it right at all that african americans had to get treated that way and not treat others the same way. For almost 17 years southern border has been segregation ⅔ of them are african americans. Blacks were getting done wrong because of their color or should I say race. They didn't deserve to be done that