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This paper will discuss the brown vs the board of education court case, the history of the era, the historical figures and the impact that it had on the United States of America.
The History
Before we begin with the court case it self we need to take a look at the time period that it took place in. In the 1950s Jim Crow laws had been put into place to keep Colored people and White people seperated. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored people (NAACP) had been already been trying to sue the government for them to advance racial equality. But for this particular event it takes place in a city right outside of Kansas city called Topeka. (“Brown v. B.O.E.”) Topeka is close to the 40th parallel which had been the dividing line between South and North. At this time Kansas was become quite a mixing pot that some of the whites did not like. During 1920-1930 many African americans had migrated to kansas for work that was not in the fields. (K.H.S)
Court Case
Now that what history of the time period has been established now we can move forward to the court case itself. The original case against the board of education was motioned by Oliver Brown who was the father of Linda brown who was denied entry into a white school. Having the Jim crow laws and the separate but equal precedent established by the Plessy v. Ferguson his case was quickly shot down. (Brown v. B.O.E.) Mr. Brown then became known as the lead Plaintiff of the case.
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Then in 1952 the court had 5 collective groups join the case. The case was taken to the supreme court where judge Warren had then seen that the case was no longer just a race issue, it was an issue of education. (Brown v. B.O.E. (1954)) The case did not end until 1954 when the verdict was decided that the children would be allowed to go the all white schools.
Those schools would no longer be segregated due to the over ruling of the separate but equal precedent. (Documents related to Brown v. B.O.E) Directly after the case many white southerners were upset with the verdict. They believed that they were going against the constitution by going over the Segregated but equal precedent. With their anger to the verdict they caused heavy resistance to its effect. (Brown v. B.O.E. (1954))
