May 17 2010
Subversive Historian – 05/17/10
Brown v. Board of Education
Back in the day on May 17th, 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled against racial segregation in the nation’s public schools. The landmark Brown v. the Board of Education case resulted in all nine justices unanimously striking down the doctrine of ‘separate but equal,’ as a violation of the 14th amendment of the constitution. The historic lawsuit filed by the NAACP on behalf of Oliver Brown, the father of an eight year-old African-American daughter who could not attend a nearby ‘white school,’ in Topeka, Kansas, also included nearly 200 plaintiffs from four different states. The ruling that followed reversed the Supreme Court’s earlier legal precedence for legal segregation established by Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. By deeming separate educational facilities to be inherently unequal in the case, Chief Justice Earl Warren essentially helped to dismantle the basis for racial segregation beyond the classrooms of the nation’s schools.
Brown v. the Board of Education was an important step in the right direction for racial equality in the U.S. even as the nation, to this day, continues to struggle in finding its stride
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