Sunday, April 24, 2011

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

This case arose when Brown appealed a collection of cases that were about black children being denied admission to segregated white public school. Even with the Plessy v. Ferguson case which ruled that the 14th Amendment doesn't protect equal facilities from being separate. But Brown brought the appeals up because there were black and white schools being equalized.
I believe that since there were schools being equalized throughout the nation it gave the perfect example and reason for change in the segregation of schools. By having separate black and white public schools it can cause individuals to feel that one race is superior to the other. Therefore the segregated school are violating the 14th Amendment because not everyone is getting "equal protection of the laws."

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