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facilities” (www.newworldencyclopedia.org). However, the NAACP got the Supreme Court to review the Plessy vs. Ferguson court decision because most public schools, in the mid-1950s, were separate but lacked in equal resources and facilities. Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka (1954) resulted in the overturning…

segregated due to the Jim Crow time. Why is places still segregated? Didn’t the Brown v. Board of Education case say that segregation has to stop in school systems? Segregation was a huge factor and still is a huge factor regardless of what the court case decision was. What is so important about segregation, it has to be stopped immediately for all Americans. In May of 1945, the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education came about in Topeka, Kansas. Based on the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson…

Financial reporting communicates what a company’s financial and operational condition is at any specific time. To make the reporting clear and concise, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) created the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) which is a set of standards that includes a set of codes that provide structure and organization. (Spiceland, Sepe, & Nelson, 2013, pg. 10) Similarly, international countries have created their own set of accounting standards. However, in…

economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything. You have yours and you control yours; we have ours and we control ours.” - Malcolm X. Truly Plessy v. Ferguson, a Loving v. Virginia, and Brown v. Board of Education were cases the Supreme Court decided to have the "desegregation" statement. Including that the civil rights movement enacted in desegregation, moving towards equality and treating each individual the same as any other. Overall,…

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Before this Brown vs. Board of Education decision, many states had segregation laws stating African Americans and Caucasians should attend separate schools. In response to this, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People adopted a plan for the integration of schools. The first schools to integrate would be high schools. Despite this opposition, nine African American students…

This month, American people are reminded that sixty-four years ago, the Brown v. Board of Education case desegregated public schools and transformed a piece of the history of education in the United States. The integration of black students into a white-dominated education system seemed idealistic in 1954 when the decision passed, yet it faced many conflicts when society showed their discontent with the verdict in various ways. During this time period, many focused on the nine brave African…

9 to 0 The Brown vs. the Board of Education case challenged the racial segregation in public schools in Topeka, Kansas. After the Plessy vs. Ferguson case, the “separate-but-equal” doctrine accredited to racially segregated schools. Linda Brown, an African American third grader, had to walk a mile to her school when a white school was only blocks away. There were eighteen white schools to four black schools in her neighborhood. Topeka NAACP leader, McKinley Burnett, gathered plaintiffs for the…

Board of Education, the ruling was merely a check against the majority to protect the rights of minorities. Majority rule is important in a democracy; yet when the majority infringes on rights of minorities, the power of the majority must be diminished in order for society to maintain justice. In Brown, it was noted that, “The plaintiffs contend that segregated public schools are not ‘equal’ and cannot be made ‘equal’ and that hence they are deprive of the equal protection of the laws” (188). It…

The Brown vs. Board of education case is a consolidation of several cases from Kansas, Virginia, South Carolina, and Delaware. Multitudes of black children looked for admission to public schools that required segregation based on color and race. Plaintiffs conclude that segregation was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Brown case served as a spark for the civil rights movement, inspiring education reform everywhere, and changing the legal means…

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) was established by congress in 2002 to oversee auditors of public companies. The law stipulates that the PCAOB inspect auditor firms’ performances and their quality control systems regularly to make sure they follow the standards that the PCAOB set up. For the auditors of public companies, the PCAOB implements a risk-based approach to assess audit engagements. The inspection uses high-risk samples to evaluate an auditing firm instead of…