Brown v Board of Education: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas was a landmark case of the United States’ Supreme Court. It was the combination of five “…cases from four states and the District of Columbia…that reached the Supreme Court in 1952” (Give Me Liberty! 953) that challenged the controversial “separate but equal” policy regarding segregated facilities that resulted from the Plessy v. Ferguson case in 1896. In this case, the plaintiffs targeted the outstanding differences between schools for white children and those for black, who often “…attended classes in buildings with no running water or indoor toilets and were not provided with busses to transport them to classes” (Give Me Liberty! 953). When the cases made their way
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Specifically, Brown v. BOE resulted from the case brought up by a man named Oliver Brown, whose daughter “….was forced to walk across dangerous railroad tracks each morning rather than being allowed to attend a nearby school restricted …show more content…
It gets its name from Senator Joseph R. McCarthy from Wisconsin, who, in February 1950, claimed that communists had infiltrated the American government. He shocked the State Department when he announced “…that he had a list of 205 communists” (Give Me Liberty! 909) who worked in the department, but the number later dropped to fifty-seven individuals. The only evidence to support his claims of enemy invasion were the name of the fifty-seven individuals who he believed “… [appeared] to be either card carrying members or certainly loyal to the Communist Party” (Voices of Freedom 236). Using the Red Scare as a stepping stone to promote his image, McCarthy, as a chair of the Senate subcommittee, continued his rampage held “…hearings and [leveled] wild charges against numerous individuals as well as…government agencies” (Give Me Liberty! 909). Despite his growing frenzy, McCarthy possessed no concrete evidence of any kind, and never “…identified a single person guilty of genuine disloyalty” (Give Me Liberty! 909), which shows that the whole fiasco was just speculation and accusation. However, this mindset and process of accusation without concrete evidence was not uncommon during the Cold War, as seen with President Truman’s loyalty review system and the House of Un-American Activities Committee’s trials in Hollywood,
Specifically, Brown v. BOE resulted from the case brought up by a man named Oliver Brown, whose daughter “….was forced to walk across dangerous railroad tracks each morning rather than being allowed to attend a nearby school restricted …show more content…
It gets its name from Senator Joseph R. McCarthy from Wisconsin, who, in February 1950, claimed that communists had infiltrated the American government. He shocked the State Department when he announced “…that he had a list of 205 communists” (Give Me Liberty! 909) who worked in the department, but the number later dropped to fifty-seven individuals. The only evidence to support his claims of enemy invasion were the name of the fifty-seven individuals who he believed “… [appeared] to be either card carrying members or certainly loyal to the Communist Party” (Voices of Freedom 236). Using the Red Scare as a stepping stone to promote his image, McCarthy, as a chair of the Senate subcommittee, continued his rampage held “…hearings and [leveled] wild charges against numerous individuals as well as…government agencies” (Give Me Liberty! 909). Despite his growing frenzy, McCarthy possessed no concrete evidence of any kind, and never “…identified a single person guilty of genuine disloyalty” (Give Me Liberty! 909), which shows that the whole fiasco was just speculation and accusation. However, this mindset and process of accusation without concrete evidence was not uncommon during the Cold War, as seen with President Truman’s loyalty review system and the House of Un-American Activities Committee’s trials in Hollywood,