Sunday, April 7, 2013

LAD #37 Brown v. Board of Education

In the 1950s, there was still much racial segregation in schools, that did not allow blacks and whites to be taught together. Linda Brown, a third grader in Kansas was forced to walk 1 mile everyday to get to her black school, even thought the white school was very close. Later, her father tried to enroll her in the white elementary school, however the principle did not allow it. He then went to the NAACP and they were eager to help. In the district court, the NAACP argued that the blacks not being able to go to the same schools as the white makes them feel inferior, thus no longer have an "separate but equal" feel. On the other side, the BOE fought that they were preparing the black kids for the segregation they would have later in life. Because of the unfair ruling, Brown and the NAACP appealed to the supreme court. After a long time in the decision making of the court, they struck down the "Separate but equal" idea of the Plessy v. Ferguson. This was the first steps into desegregating schools.

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