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the-heels school for blacks. The child was only in the third grade and it was
too far for a child to go to a school. Her father Oliver tried to enroll her in a
school close by. They wouldn’t accept her because of being the wrong race.
of the issue of their race. He did have the aid of the NAACP when he went
to sue the school board. Mainly segregation was the issue at hand and back
in the 1950’s it was everywhere. Even though, “in four cases originating in
Henry M. pg. 114-115) It was basically that the whites didn’t want the
blacks to be in their schools because of their race which is ridiculous. All the
children wanted was the same education as the white children, so that they
could go to a school that had more resources available to them. The junior
high and senior high school weren’t segregated. “Brown kick-started the
civil rights movement, and began a slow but steady process of dismantling
factors may be equal. The “separate but equal” doctrine adopted in Plessy
representative and they also got aid of the courts to obtain admission to
segregated basis, they weren’t allowed to attend the school because of the
law was that segregation was legal. The “separate but equal” doctrine, was
an equal treatment, but when it came to the blacks that they were provided
facilities. All facilities were separated. All of the questions were answered
the colored children. The impact of the law, as for policy that the
Supreme Court announced its unanimous decision on May 17, 1954. It held
that school segregation violated the Equal Protection and Due Process
unconstitutional.
was that the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas did indeed violate the
ones race. That the African-Americans weren’t treated fairly and equally.
That all schools should be integrated. This decision led to a great deal other
women and other groups of people who felt that they were denied equal
rights.
integrate their schools because they didn’t want to have Negroesin their
schools. In Prince Edward County, VA done was closed their schools so that
they didn’t have to fund integrated schools. In which that school stayed
closed from 1959 thru 1964, which left a lot of students without any
closing a school because they didn’t want black in their schools, which made
the other children suffer from lack of education. It makes you think what
was wrong with their heads, to come up with that reasoning. In by closing
the school, made it look like that people didn’t really care about their
children’s education. But in the long run other schools, colleges, and places
that a white person could do. This caused blacks to be hired without any
discrimination. Slowly every state was integrating their schools. After this
case was decided on, it helped a lot of people, not only the blacks, but all
races.
References
Christman, Henry M. The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren, 1968.
Pages 114-115.