Brown v. Board of Education
Through many of the early years, segregation was going on all around the US. People believed that segregation in public schools was “separate but equal.” When congress found out about this during the Brown v. Board of Education case, it was declared unconstitutional. Congress soon announced that it is now the school boards job to make sure desegregation is implied. Under the fourteenth amendment everyone is equal, segregation went against that law. When Oliver Brown saw that his daughter Linda had to walk six blocks to get to a bus stop then drive a mile away to get to her segregated school for all blacks, and there was an all-white kid school seven blocks from her house, he thought it wasn’t right. The children shouldn’t have to go farther to a school when there is another one much closer to their house. So Mr. Brown decided to do something about it. He brought this case to court.
Another thing he found very interesting is that the all-white schools were in better condition than the all-black schools. Brown soon then agreed to join in the NAACP's case. When the case first came to the U.S. District Court for Kansas in June 1951, Brown testified that his daughter had to travel twenty-one blocks to an all-black school, part of the way through a dangerous railroad switching yard. He wanted to make sure that his daughter among many other black children got the same education as the white children. They did not want to end the system of segregation in public schools just to have their children travel less miles to class or sit in nicer buildings. Much more important issues like, the way people view the US as a whole. African Americans had come to see segregated schools as unequal. These schools didn’t give African Americans the opportunities to learn at the same rate the white children learned at. Congress helped Oliver win because it wasn’t constitutional, what they were doing, it wasn’t right, and it had to be stopped, and that’s exactly what they did. This case started the Civil Rights Movement, and now the world will slowly see that blacks and whites are equal.
This article says a lot about how this one court case changed the lives for millions. This was the start to and amazing historical event in our history. Blacks and whites should never have been separated we are all the same. Yes, we may look different but, inside is what really matters. The Brown v. Board of Education case raised the bar to what lies ahead. It showed the courts that they are willing to do whatever it takes to become free. They have feelings to and when they made it constitutional to segregate schools, they had to speak up. It’s unnecessary to go to a school miles away when there is one right around the corner. They all learn the same way. These human beings are being treated as animals and it’s not fair.
Another thing he found very interesting is that the all-white schools were in better condition than the all-black schools. Brown soon then agreed to join in the NAACP's case. When the case first came to the U.S. District Court for Kansas in June 1951, Brown testified that his daughter had to travel twenty-one blocks to an all-black school, part of the way through a dangerous railroad switching yard. He wanted to make sure that his daughter among many other black children got the same education as the white children. They did not want to end the system of segregation in public schools just to have their children travel less miles to class or sit in nicer buildings. Much more important issues like, the way people view the US as a whole. African Americans had come to see segregated schools as unequal. These schools didn’t give African Americans the opportunities to learn at the same rate the white children learned at. Congress helped Oliver win because it wasn’t constitutional, what they were doing, it wasn’t right, and it had to be stopped, and that’s exactly what they did. This case started the Civil Rights Movement, and now the world will slowly see that blacks and whites are equal.
This article says a lot about how this one court case changed the lives for millions. This was the start to and amazing historical event in our history. Blacks and whites should never have been separated we are all the same. Yes, we may look different but, inside is what really matters. The Brown v. Board of Education case raised the bar to what lies ahead. It showed the courts that they are willing to do whatever it takes to become free. They have feelings to and when they made it constitutional to segregate schools, they had to speak up. It’s unnecessary to go to a school miles away when there is one right around the corner. They all learn the same way. These human beings are being treated as animals and it’s not fair.
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