Brown Vs Board Of Education Case Study

Brown vs. Board of Education Brown vs. Board of Education, in 1954, was a major case that dealt with the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Although the decision did not succeed in fully integrating public education in the United States, it put the Constitution on the side of racial equality and sent the civil rights movement into a full revolution. This case was presented to the court by Oliver Brown was against the Board of Education to get equal opportunities in public education. The children in the African American schools received half the spends than that of the children in the white schools. There is no possibility that people can be seperate but also equal. This decision was right for two main reasons, that there was no way to have equality with segregation, and that it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
First, when you segregate two separate groups there is now way that can be completely equal.
For example in the Doll Test experiment by Dr. Kenneth Clark he showed two dolls, one white and one black the the African American students and asked them which doll they prefered; the majority said the white doll (Documents Related to Brown v. Board of Education). This shows that when the African American children were set apart from the white children they felt that they were of a lower stature. Also, the average money spent between the two races was huge, approximately “$70 for each white child and $30 dollars for each black child” (Separate But Equal). This goes to show that though the government and school districts thought that separate but equal would work; it just wasn’t possible if they weren’t spending the same amount of money on each child. More importantly than separate but equal not being possible they were violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment. The Brown vs. The Board of Education was a pivotal case in terms of American history. When the Brown vs. The Board of Education case got to the court there had already been a case, Plessy vs. Ferguson, that determined that segregation was constitutional because “separate but equal” still ment equal (Brown v. Board of Education (1954)). This was not true. This lead to major controversy and the ban of segregation in public school. The Little Rock Nine were nine African American students attending Little Rock Central High School were told that they were not allowed to go to the white school even after the case was over (Brown v. Board of Education). This was unconstitutional and just an example of how strong segregation and racism was in the South. It was also an important case because it is one of the few cases where the Judicial branch had to legislate a law. All in all, the Brown vs. The Board of Education case was a remarkable moment in history and lead to the integration of blacks and whites. This case was the act that got the ball rolling, first Martin Luther King Jr., then Malcolm X, and then Rosa Parks. This was a remarkable feat that help free the African American population from segregation.

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Separate But Equal. Dir. G. Stevens, Jr. Perf. Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, Richard Kiley. 1991. DVD.