Brown vs. Board of Education to Affirmative Action Correlation Between the Black Civil Rights Movement and Latino Civil Rights
Brown VS. Board of Education to Affirmative Action
Correlation between the Black Civil Rights Movement and Latino Civil Rights
Kati BurgessNc: YURR8E
U.S. History in documents
The aim of this paper is to give some insights on the Supreme Court ruling of Brown vs Board of Education and to investigate whether it had some effects on Hispanic minorities.
Black people were not the only minority in the US who fought for their rights. Both Hispanics and Blacks were subjected to different scrutinies throughout history. However, whereas Black people faced discrimination based on their color Hispanics had to deal with their origin, therefore their language as well.
In the early 1950's, racial segregation in public schools was the norm all across America. Even though all the schools in a given district were supposed to be equal, most black schools were far inferior to their white counterparts. Prior to the 60’s, teachers of ’black schools’ were overloaded, inadequately trained, and they had a different, inferior curriculum with poor funding, facilities and services. In the Southern part of the country school terms were shorter for Black students than for Whites (Ogbu, 1990).
Reverend Oliver Brown went to McKinley Burnett, who was the head of Topeka's branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at the time, and asked for help. The NAACP was eager to assist the Browns, since it had long wanted to challenge segregation in public schools. With Brown's complaint, it had "the right plaintiff at the right time." Other black parents joined Brown, and, in 1951, the NAACP requested an injunction that would forbid the segregation of Topeka's public schools(Teaching American History).
When the Topeka case made its way to the United States Supreme Court it was combined with other NAACP cases from Delaware, Virginia, South Carolina and Washington, D.C. The combined cases became known as Oliver L. Brown et. al. vs. The Board of
Correlation between the Black Civil Rights Movement and Latino Civil Rights
Kati BurgessNc: YURR8E
U.S. History in documents
The aim of this paper is to give some insights on the Supreme Court ruling of Brown vs Board of Education and to investigate whether it had some effects on Hispanic minorities.
Black people were not the only minority in the US who fought for their rights. Both Hispanics and Blacks were subjected to different scrutinies throughout history. However, whereas Black people faced discrimination based on their color Hispanics had to deal with their origin, therefore their language as well.
In the early 1950's, racial segregation in public schools was the norm all across America. Even though all the schools in a given district were supposed to be equal, most black schools were far inferior to their white counterparts. Prior to the 60’s, teachers of ’black schools’ were overloaded, inadequately trained, and they had a different, inferior curriculum with poor funding, facilities and services. In the Southern part of the country school terms were shorter for Black students than for Whites (Ogbu, 1990).
Reverend Oliver Brown went to McKinley Burnett, who was the head of Topeka's branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at the time, and asked for help. The NAACP was eager to assist the Browns, since it had long wanted to challenge segregation in public schools. With Brown's complaint, it had "the right plaintiff at the right time." Other black parents joined Brown, and, in 1951, the NAACP requested an injunction that would forbid the segregation of Topeka's public schools(Teaching American History).
When the Topeka case made its way to the United States Supreme Court it was combined with other NAACP cases from Delaware, Virginia, South Carolina and Washington, D.C. The combined cases became known as Oliver L. Brown et. al. vs. The Board of