LAD Blog #37 Brown vs., Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas

During and before the 1950's racial segregation was normal throughout society, including schools. Theses separate schools were designed to be equal, but of course were not. A third grader named Linda Brown had to walk a mile to get to school everday, even though she lived much closer to a white elementary school. As a result of this inconvience, her father attempted for her to attend the white school and when they refused, her father went to McKinely Burnett head of the NAACP. On June 25 1951, the District of Kansas listened to Browns case, with the statement that separate schools suggested the blacks were inferior to whites. Stating that separate, but equal are not equal. Also, that the childrens schooling will later effect them and prepare them for the life they will live as an adult. They later appealed to the Supreme Court on October 1, 1951 and their case challenged school segregation in other schools. It was not until May 17 1954, that the Supreme Court had their unanimous decesion that under the 14th amendemnt that they cannot be depreved of the equal protection under the law and that the schools were not separate, but equal and she was able to attend the white school. This decesion only affected certain

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