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Brown v. Broad of Education, Topeka (1954)
Background:
This may be the most known and the most controversial decision of the modern Supreme Court. The Court finally saw that some women don’t have any other choice than abortion.Right after the moment was handed down, Roe v. Wade has divided lawyers, politicians, and the public into those who support the decision and those who would like it brought down, either by the same Supreme Court or by act of the legislature. A judge's or politician's position on the case of abortion has played a very important major role in numeroud appointments and elections. After the decision which impacted for the rest of his life, the opinion brought its author, Justice Harry Blackmun, a nonstop stream of mail both praising and critizising harshly him for the decision.
Does segregation of children in public schools deny blacks their Fourteenth Amendment right of equal protection under the law?
Opinion of the Court: Segregation of children in the public schools only on the basis of kinds of race denies to black children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, even though the physical facilities and other may be equal. The education in public schools is made for all kinds of people, and it doesn’t matter what race they are. The question above is studied not only on when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, but in the light of the role of public education in American life today. The separate and equal at the same time doctrine adopted in Plessy v. Ferguson, doesn’t fit in the field of public education. Separating black children from the other kinds of color children is a negative act, because it causes or it may cause heart damage, in the way that they will feel out of the cirle and treated badly.
Impact:
The impact of segregation is greater when it has the approval of law. I think that the feeling of being like less important, or in the