Education has long been regarded as a valuable asset for all of America's youth. Yet, when this benefit is denied to a specific group, measures must be taken to protect its educational right. In the 1950's, a courageous group of activists launched a legal attack on segregation in schools. At the head of this attack was NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall; his legal strategies would contribute greatly to the dissolution of educational segregation. According to U.S. Court Cases the segregation among whites and blacks was a legal law established for almost sixty years in the United States. However, Brown vs. The Board of Education was the turning point in race relations. Still, most of the conflict between whites and blacks would be in the south, because they where the largest racial minority. They were subject to laws and customs, which prevented from full participation in social life. As a matter of fact, many of the laws imposed on black were that of segregation in public schools (U.S. Court Cases 154). Yet, to understand the laws that were being questioned in the case of Brown vs. The Board of Education, one must look back to the beginning, to when laws were first set to limit the lives of African Americans. The one case that fueled that battle was Plessy vs. Ferguson. According to Tackach, this case concerned a piece of Jim Crow legislation that had been enacted in Louisiana in 1890. The Louisiana Railway Accommodations Act required all railway companies operating to: .provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing separate coaches or compartments so as to secure separate accommodations. insisting on going into a coach or compartment to which by his race he does not belong, shall be liable to a fine of twenty five dollars or in lieu thereof to imprisonment for a period of not more than twenty days (Tackach 22). However, on June 7, 1982 a man - seven eights white and one eighth black - boarded a train in New Orleans and took a seat in the car reserved for white travelers.
The decisions in Supreme Courts such as Plessy vs. Ferguson and the Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education decision all played key roles in our American Civil Rights Movement. ... By this time in 1954, the Supreme Court has outlawed school segregation in the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education case. ...
The great court decision, "Brown vs. the Board of Education," called for the integration of the country's public schools. ... Almost thirty million people owned televisions by this time so it was no surprise that America fell in love with shows like "The Ed Sullivan Show," "I Love Lucy," "Dragnet," and "Lassie." ... The Cleveland Browns defeated the Detroit Lions to win the NFL championship. ...
The great court decision, "Brown vs. the Board of Education," called for the integration of the country's public schools. ... Almost thirty million people owned televisions by this time so it was no surprise that America fell in love with shows like "The Ed Sullivan Show," "I Love Lucy," "Dragnet," and "Lassie." ... The Cleveland Browns defeated the Detroit Lions to win the NFL championship. ...
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's is considered begin with the court case of Brown vs. the Board of Education. ... When Oliver Brown attempted to enroll his daughter into a white elementary school because the distance to a colored school was too far, she was denied acceptance. ... Ferguson was undecided the court ruled in favor of the Board of Education. ...
Supreme Court declared, in Brown v. ... Of course, the Brown decision did not miraculously desegregate schools. ... Bibb County, Alabama, Board of Education v. ... School Board of Richmond, Virginia v. ... Before Brown, they had been segregated in schools that were under funded and had fewer course offerings than white schools. ...
