The article I choose to discuss is the Brown VS. Board of Education from the Los Angles Times in 1954. During this time it was unheard of to challenge these things in court. Not only was Brown vs. Board a huge deal to be one court case but it was five small cases. Thurgood Marshall and the Advancement of Colored People were in charge. All of these cases had one thing in mind; state sponsored school segregation. These cases ended up going to the Supreme Court because all five were voted in favor of the schools.
Brown VS. Board all started with Linda Brown an African American girl from Topeka who was forced to walk 21 blocks to walk to a black school. The school only five blocks from her school who would not allow her because she was black. Taking this to court her dad claimed "equal protection clause" of the 14th Amendment. The final decision of Brown VS. Board of Education was on a racially nondiscriminatory basis to admin minorities into public schools; affection South schools a lot. Secondary Source "The object of the [Fourteenth] amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to endorse social, as distinguished from political, equality. . . If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane." --From the case of Plessy VS. Ferguson Justice Henry Billings Brown, writing the majority opinion. |
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