Plessy Belton Vs Gebhart Summary

African Americans fought hundreds of years to have the same equal rights as white Americans. It has been over 60 years since segregated public schools were found to be unlawful and violated blacks civil rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. While there were five cases involved with the desegregation in public schools, it caved an opening for African Americans to be treated equally and receive the same educational benefits as whites and finally having a voice to be heard by the Supreme Court. African Americans were allowed to go to school of course, just as white children were. They were not in the same schools however the majority of the United States had segregated schools by race. In the court case of Plessy …show more content…
Gebhart and Bulah v. Gebhart were two separate cases that happened in Claymont Delaware, but they both similar because they were excluded from going to a local white school with a better curriculum. The white school offered courses that would enhance the children and because the black school did not offer these classes they wanted an equal chance of an education. This case was considerably different because the data that was brought in by a testimony from Dr. Kenneth Clark. He was known for his study on developing children and his doll study. Taking a black doll and a white doll and putting it in front of a child asking which doll was good and which one was bad, proving that segregation does impair children. The court actually ruled in their favor of being discriminated against, the court ruled that the district was in violation of the separate but equal act. It was quite a win for sure but Brown vs. Board of Education appealed this case and it was combined with the cases up at the Supreme …show more content…
It was the case Bolling v. Sharpe. This happened in the District of Columbia and while a group of parents were the ones that were concerned with the conditions of the schools that their children were attending they went to court because the equal protection clause applied only to state laws, segregated schools where mandated by federal law in the district of Columbia. The second special circumstance of this case was that they did not give any evidence of the separate but equal clause and did not even mention it for their defense plan. They said that the clause itself was unconstitutional even if the schools that their children attended were equal to a facility that a white child went to. This case was also brought fourth as the last case in the Brown vs. Board of Education making a total of 5 cases for the ruling of desegregation in public