The Civil Rights Movement: Brown Vs. Board Of Education

The United State’s civil rights movement was at full swing in 1964, yet still only four-percent of Americans felt that racial problems were considered to be a challenge that the United States faced. However unmindful the general public may have been, civil unrest grew stronger within the African American community and like-minded volunteers decided to tackle the increasing challenge of civil rights with certainty. The disillusion of the American public was overcome with a series of civil and legal proceedings. As the civil unrest was growing, albeit in different forms throughout the United States, they all held the same central ideal- “the dream of equal citizenship.”
Embedded in regulated social code, the segregation of public resources that were wholly open to the white community while still submerged within the Jim Crow mentality for the African American population. It is no wonder that the end of racial restriction gained momentum as it did, …show more content…
The judicial phase ended with the argument that racially segregated school systems were in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that non-anglo children were developing the image of “racial inferiority” as a result of exclusionary learning institutions. The result of this rhetoric was the Supreme court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), which legally ended racial segregation in public schools. In the wake of Brown, also came an urgent sense of motivation for the civil rights movement. Whereas the legislative phase begins with Brown, it ends with the 1965 Voting Rights Act passed by Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. This would be the most significant civil rights legislation that had passed through congress and it ensured the end of public discrimination and would finally allow the African American community to vote with ease by lowering voter registration