Brown Vs. Education Case Study

The Brown vs. Education was a prime example of the 1960s and 70s exhibiting great social development; the case is a prime example of the government working to end discrimination in the United States. While the case ruled for separation of black and white schools to be unconstitutional there was also the fact that colored people still were not considered U.S citizens or the lack of representation given to the minority’s in the 60s do not demonstrate how the U.S was more freeing. The black power movement started in with Martin Luther KIng and his non-violent protests and has had its way through many other stages. Martin was one of the first successful black movement advocates, because he was well spoken and never resorted to violence. The community black and white found his ideas to be worth while and had a large selection of …show more content…
Starting with the Chicano movement and their fight for political power. In the early 60s through the Mexican American were described as poor and uneducated, but they wanted to see that change. The Mexican Americans leaders worked to educate themselves and teach each other how to stand against the government and society which was holding them back. This led to the formation of La Raza Unida, which also leads to the Chicanos having enough pride to create their own political party that challenged the Democrats and Republican Party. Now this movement like most of the ethnic movements before they started off as a peaceful and perfectly legal response to the marginalization and lack of any economic opportunity given to them by the government. Thanks to voting blocks than only gave voting representation to white populated voting districts. This made the voices and concerns of the Mexican people (which was a grave injustice because the in the case of New Mexico and many other southern border states, the Mexican population was the majority in the state or at the very least a large percentage of the