Linda Brown and Brown v. Board of Education
The Civil Rights Movement was an event in American History that played a huge role in shifting the way America is today. The Civil Rights Movement was the biggest step in breaking racial inequality and eliminating segregation between whites and blacks, and bringing the people of America closer together as a society. Numerous people helped push for racial equality, and several of them had gone down into history due to how significant their actions were. The most well known examples of these people are Martin Luther King Jr., Ruby Bridges, and Rosa Parks. However, there was one person who had changed things that isn’t as well known as the others. This person was Linda Brown. Linda Brown was one of …show more content…
Born on February 20th, 1942 in Topeka, Kansas, Linda had to drag herself a long distance to school everyday because segregation forbid her from going to the white-only school closer by (Biography.com). Due to this, Oliver Brown, Linda’s father, agreed to try and enroll his daughter into an all-white school when the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People proposed the idea to him and a few other African-American parents. This attempt would soon spiral into what is known as the Brown v. Board of Education case. In 1952, Oliver Brown stood before the Supreme Court, with NAACP legal defense head Thurgood Marshall as chief attorney on Oliver’s side. The court was initially split on whether to outlaw segregation or not, but once the Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson was replaced by California governor Earl Warren, the new Chief Justice was able to create a worthy decision against school segregation leading up to the year following. The final decision was made May 17, 1954, and the court decided that segregation in schools would be put to a stop from then onward …show more content…
Education was no longer bogged down by having specific facilities for kids of different races, and this unification would be beneficial for the people of America, who were all different not just racially but in so many other ways, could become closer. In a 1985 interview with Brown, she states, “I feel that after 30 years, looking back on Brown v. the Board of Education, it has made an impact in all facets of life for minorities throughout the land… I really think of it in terms of what it has done for our young people, in taking away that feeling of second-class citizenship” (Smith & Silverman). The case has gone beyond just school systems, but in society as a whole.
The Brown v Board of Education case, as well as Linda Brown herself, have left a significant impact on America and its educational system. If the case had not been sparked, progress towards the desegregation of schools would have been slowed down majorly. This case was a step that took America’s progress toward equality among all a far distance.
Works Cited
“Linda Brown.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 27 Mar.
The Civil Rights Movement was an event in American History that played a huge role in shifting the way America is today. The Civil Rights Movement was the biggest step in breaking racial inequality and eliminating segregation between whites and blacks, and bringing the people of America closer together as a society. Numerous people helped push for racial equality, and several of them had gone down into history due to how significant their actions were. The most well known examples of these people are Martin Luther King Jr., Ruby Bridges, and Rosa Parks. However, there was one person who had changed things that isn’t as well known as the others. This person was Linda Brown. Linda Brown was one of …show more content…
Born on February 20th, 1942 in Topeka, Kansas, Linda had to drag herself a long distance to school everyday because segregation forbid her from going to the white-only school closer by (Biography.com). Due to this, Oliver Brown, Linda’s father, agreed to try and enroll his daughter into an all-white school when the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People proposed the idea to him and a few other African-American parents. This attempt would soon spiral into what is known as the Brown v. Board of Education case. In 1952, Oliver Brown stood before the Supreme Court, with NAACP legal defense head Thurgood Marshall as chief attorney on Oliver’s side. The court was initially split on whether to outlaw segregation or not, but once the Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson was replaced by California governor Earl Warren, the new Chief Justice was able to create a worthy decision against school segregation leading up to the year following. The final decision was made May 17, 1954, and the court decided that segregation in schools would be put to a stop from then onward …show more content…
Education was no longer bogged down by having specific facilities for kids of different races, and this unification would be beneficial for the people of America, who were all different not just racially but in so many other ways, could become closer. In a 1985 interview with Brown, she states, “I feel that after 30 years, looking back on Brown v. the Board of Education, it has made an impact in all facets of life for minorities throughout the land… I really think of it in terms of what it has done for our young people, in taking away that feeling of second-class citizenship” (Smith & Silverman). The case has gone beyond just school systems, but in society as a whole.
The Brown v Board of Education case, as well as Linda Brown herself, have left a significant impact on America and its educational system. If the case had not been sparked, progress towards the desegregation of schools would have been slowed down majorly. This case was a step that took America’s progress toward equality among all a far distance.
Works Cited
“Linda Brown.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 27 Mar.