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Brown V Board Of Education Essay

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Monday, May 17, 1954 was the day in which the education system was changed and racism started making a turn for the best. The case that helped this movement was Brown v. Board of Education and is know today as one of the greatest Supreme Court decision of the 20th century. It all started when the plaintiff Oliver Brown a parent of one of the student who were denied admission to a white school in Topeka, Kansas. Brown argued that by not allowing his daughter into the school was a violation to the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. The clause states that both white and black schools should be equal. On those terms the federal district court dismissed the claim, on terms that the black schools were substantially equal enough to meet the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. Brown …show more content…

I did on a number of reasons. First, being that the Board of Education did indeed violate the 14th Amendment which states, “ That its broad goal was to ensure that the Civil Rights Act passed in 1866 would remain valid ensuring that ‘all persons born in the United States...excluding Indians not taxed....’ were citizens and were to be given full and equal benefit of all laws.” These equal rights were not seen in black schools and by not allowing black student into white schools and vise versa violated the 14th Amendment. Black student were often found to have low racial self-esteem leading to inferiority complexes causing student to decrease their ability to learn. Secondly, the black schools were poorly made; they had leaking roofs, windows lacking glass and a scarcity of seating. Along with the poor build quality came large class sizes, a lack of education materials and the number of schools were a fraction of that of white schools. In the case of Brown v. Board of Education Linda Brown had to walk over 20 blocks to get to her school, many of the white schools she passed by had a better education, greater teaching materials and larger

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