Brown V. Board Of Education Case Study

On May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education was decided unanimous by the Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall, NAACP’s chief counsel, argued the case before the Supreme Court. The decision was based upon the inherently unequal “separate but equal” clause and violation of the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered the opinion of the court, also stating basing facilities upon race create inferiority among African American children that proved to be damaging to both their education and growth. This decision overturned the decision made in Plessy v. Ferguson that declared “separate but equal” constitutional. The second decision in Brown v. Board of Education was decided on May 31, 1955. This decision determined what means should be used to implement the principles announced in the initial Brown v. Board of Education case. Brown v. Board of Education was a multiple of cases heard at the same time based upon their issue of segregation within schools. The cases included Briggs v. Elliott in South Carolina, Davis …show more content…
Board of Education was a NAACP sponsored case that changed the way schools operated and allowed children to attend. Many schools, towns, and government officials throughout the South did not willingly accept the ruling and did everything within in their power to keep school segregated. Some schools would rather have closed than to have allowed black students to attend, withholding both white and black children from an education. Without the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, Little Rock Nine would have never happened, and countless other firsts recorded in the history of the Civil Rights Movement. If Brown v. Board of Education never made it to the Supreme Court and had not been decided fairly without racial bias, but with justice and equality, I definitely would not attend the school I attend now, and I feel as though through schools with majority black students, I would receive the short end of the stick in some