Brown Vs Board of Education
One of the most significant cases in the history of the
Supreme court of the United States is Brown, Vs board of education, the context in
which that case took place was the in the beginning of the civil right era,
under great pressure to change laws and to create a new cultural revolution the
American traditional beliefs.
- A brief description of the case: During the registration of school , several african-american children attempted to join one of Topeka's white schools , however such institution did not allow the registrations of the children under the arguments that it was no meant for them. Under their argument Oliver Brown a ,parent of one of the children , filed a claim aiming at Topeka regional school system. His argument claimed that the school system did not had the authority to not allow the registration of the children under racial idealism.
However the federal district ruled that the decision of the
school board, was under the right to do so , because the difference between
white and african american school were ''substantially'' equal. Such decision
caused rage within the parents of the african american families all over the
country and making Mr. Brown to appeal to the supreme Court.
In 1967 the case made its way to the supreme court and was
under review, Chief Justice Earl Warren
lead to the decision
that racial segregation in the school
system was unconstitutional, and aimed directly at the Equal protection clause of
the fourteen amendment.
- Background: After the partial integration of african american individuals to the traditional american structure, judicial and social laws surfaced to partially try to have 2 different societies, one of these methods was to implement 2 different school systems (White and Colored), technically both system could have equal installation and quality but in reality the level of both system were very different , from installations to locations and everywhere in between.
- Importance: Authorities or society do not necessarily stand up for whats correct, all thought history many cases of such display of force from one race to another to prevent integration had surfaced through every culture, however children should be protected from racial idealism because segregation do not only apply to a physical level, it has psychological , social development. If children are raised in such environment ,then the outcome of such social phenomena would affect several generations to come.
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