1950s America was a very difficult time for African American communities. Segregation was at its peak, and the country as a whole was experiencing growing pains while trying to make acceptance of African Americans a common way of life. During this time many court cases had been filed in attempts to help move this progression further along. One of the court cases involved is known as Brown V Board of Education. Brown V Board of Education involved an African American man by the name of Oliver Brown. Mr. Brown, with help from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), had filed a law suit against the Board of Education of Topeka, because they had turned his daughter away when applying for a summer school program. The
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The African American community had been placed in a cycle that other majority races had created for them. This cycle involved adults being belittled based on racial factors and resulted in feelings of lowered self-worth and feelings of having a lesser sense of humanity. Then those same feelings were pushed off on the children of the African American community so that they too, would grow up to have the same lowered sense of self-worth and humanity. Brown was able to detour this cycle and cause a movement so big that I do not believe Thurgood Marshall realized would be in the beginning. This was a very big step for blacks not only in Kansas but across the country. People had started to realize the severity of their action, even though it did not change the way things where overnight it did begin a major society change that would impact the world for many years to come, and even still today. There is a very popular musical artist in today’s society known as Macklemore. He had written a song by the name of “Same Love” within his words he speaks of minority’s rights, specifically the gay community. However, in this song, he says something that I believe reaches out to all minorities around the
The African American community had been placed in a cycle that other majority races had created for them. This cycle involved adults being belittled based on racial factors and resulted in feelings of lowered self-worth and feelings of having a lesser sense of humanity. Then those same feelings were pushed off on the children of the African American community so that they too, would grow up to have the same lowered sense of self-worth and humanity. Brown was able to detour this cycle and cause a movement so big that I do not believe Thurgood Marshall realized would be in the beginning. This was a very big step for blacks not only in Kansas but across the country. People had started to realize the severity of their action, even though it did not change the way things where overnight it did begin a major society change that would impact the world for many years to come, and even still today. There is a very popular musical artist in today’s society known as Macklemore. He had written a song by the name of “Same Love” within his words he speaks of minority’s rights, specifically the gay community. However, in this song, he says something that I believe reaches out to all minorities around the