Brown V. Board Of Education Case Study

Brown v. Board of Education is a historical landmark case that came from Topeka, Kansas where a young girl by the name of Linda Brown was denied admission to her local elementary school for the color of her skin. This supreme court case made the decisive decision between whether racial segregations in public schools is unconstitutional. More decisively the decision that changed the ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson that argued that although people are separate but equal, when it comes to education there is no way to make it fully equal then to integrate. This case was used by the NAACP to fight for Linda Brown. Allowing her and many other people like her to go to the all-white school. It was Thurgood Marshall that stated that the court could rule in opposition to Linda Brown in NAACP and that they had all legal right too although what they would have opposed to wouldn’t have been …show more content…
Elliott. The precursors to Brown v Board of Education were the following; Briggs v Elliot, Davis v Board of Education of Prince Edward County, Bolling v. Sharpe, and Gebhart v. Ethel. These cases were what set up the foundation of equal education. This was a case where Harry Briggs apart of the school board was charged with violating the Equal Rights Protection Clause under the fourteenth amendment. It was during this case that a child psychologist performed a test and evaluated children to see the detrimental effect it had on children. Dr. Kenneth Clark found from his doll study that African American children were more likely to play with the white doll compared to the darker toned one. When asked why it was because they thought the doll had a prettier skin tone. This discovery played a key role in the final decision to desegregate schools. This led to more children as well as adults in the school. Even though there were some major flaws, it opened the way to college admissions for