Board Of Education 1954

May 17, 1954 was the date that would change the history not only in the field of education but also peoples ' lives. In 1954, there was a case, called “Brown v. The Board of Education” that went to the Supreme Court. There was the controversial court case that tried to pass the law for unsegregated public schools. The law was even passed but it was difficult to enforce. There was too much segregation at this time in education so Brown v. Board of Education became an important point in history to stop the progress of racism. The Brown v. Board of Education was a very important case to remember because it showed the fight against racism and segregation between the blacks and whites. Without the proper education, the blacks couldn’t have proved …show more content…
In 1896, this case went to the U.S. Supreme Court and it upheld the constitutionality of segregation by the separate but equal rule. In 1892, The African American train passenger Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car; Homer Plessy was breaking a Louisiana law. Plessy took the problem case to the court and claimed the law violated the 13th and 14th amendments by treating Black Americans inferior to whites. According to Telgen, the case came before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 7-1 votes, the court majority ruled that the state required separate accommodations for the races but the accommodations were equal (Telgen, Pg. 13). After Plessy, all the education for blacks in the southern states wasn’t only separate schools and buildings but still never was equal. Brown v Board of Education is the case of the Court of the U.S that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, ruled that separate but equal was unconstitutional. Consequently, this rule changed everything and desegregation of schools …show more content…
It is interesting that Ruby Bridge was born the same year of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision to desegregate schools. She had to take the test and see if she passed so she would be allowed to go to the white school. Ruby’s mother, Lucille, believed that Ruby would have a chance to get a better education at white school. Ruby Bridges’ parents got the information by officials from the NAACP that Ruby was one of only 6 African American students to pass the test. Ruby would be the first and only black student to attend Frantz School (white school). She had gone through difficult times at school such as, “several times she was confronted with blatant racism in full view of her federal escorts. On her second day of school, a woman threatened to poison her” (Civil Rights Activist). Her mother told her to stay strong and pray everyday before she went to school but at the end of the day she became