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This group became the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or the NAACP. In 1939 the NAACP set up a branch called the Legal Defense Fund, which worked to end segregation through legal actions. (Good, 16) The LDF took many cases to the Supreme Courts where most rulings were for the NAACP due to the unequal facilities between white and black schools. In 1952, the NAACP had three cases in the Supreme Court, which was rescheduled, to be heard a second time in 1953. By 1953 two more cases had been added and the 5 cases were known as Brown v. Board of Education. These five cases were: Bulah v. Gebhard, Davis v. Prince Edward County, Briggs v. Elliot, Brown v. Board of Education, and Bolling v. Sharpe (Good, 4).
Linda Carol Brown was eight years old in the summer of 1950 when her father was told that Linda wouldn't be able to attend the Sumner Elementary School, in Topeka Kansas, due to her race. When finding this out Reverend Brown, Linda's father teamed up with other black families and sought help from the NAACP. They tried to appeal to the school board, but it didn't help. On February 28th of 1951 the battle begun when Reverend Brown filed his suit in the United States District Court as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (Dudley, …show more content…
Kansas was one of the four that gave individual cities the choice of having integrated schools (Fireside, 11). In segregated states, the state appointed much more money to the all white school rather than evenly dispersing between other schools. An example was in Clarendon County, SC, where the county spent 43 dollars on every black student compared to 179 on every white student per year. Black schools were very primitive in many areas. In most black schools there was no indoor bathroom, blackboard, or playgrounds. The schools were very over crowed and often one teacher would be assigned to 40 or more students at once (Patterson, 11). Blacks only went to school for 6 months out of the year because they were expected to plant and harvest fields (Patterson, 10). In some schools, black students were only allowed to go 3 hours a day due to double sessions because of the amount of students assigned to one school. In 1949-50 there was an average of 36.2 blacks per classroom compared to 22.6 white people per classroom. (Patterson, 11) Many black students were forced to walk past white schools that were closer, while white students rode buses to the closest school. This led to many lawsuits that eventually led up to the Brown v. Board of Education
Linda Carol Brown was eight years old in the summer of 1950 when her father was told that Linda wouldn't be able to attend the Sumner Elementary School, in Topeka Kansas, due to her race. When finding this out Reverend Brown, Linda's father teamed up with other black families and sought help from the NAACP. They tried to appeal to the school board, but it didn't help. On February 28th of 1951 the battle begun when Reverend Brown filed his suit in the United States District Court as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (Dudley, …show more content…
Kansas was one of the four that gave individual cities the choice of having integrated schools (Fireside, 11). In segregated states, the state appointed much more money to the all white school rather than evenly dispersing between other schools. An example was in Clarendon County, SC, where the county spent 43 dollars on every black student compared to 179 on every white student per year. Black schools were very primitive in many areas. In most black schools there was no indoor bathroom, blackboard, or playgrounds. The schools were very over crowed and often one teacher would be assigned to 40 or more students at once (Patterson, 11). Blacks only went to school for 6 months out of the year because they were expected to plant and harvest fields (Patterson, 10). In some schools, black students were only allowed to go 3 hours a day due to double sessions because of the amount of students assigned to one school. In 1949-50 there was an average of 36.2 blacks per classroom compared to 22.6 white people per classroom. (Patterson, 11) Many black students were forced to walk past white schools that were closer, while white students rode buses to the closest school. This led to many lawsuits that eventually led up to the Brown v. Board of Education