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    Topeka Board of Education, helped shape the future of American education, although many people disagreed with the results. Brown v. Topeka Board of Education is a Supreme Court case that took place between the years of 1950 and 1959 (BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION (I)). This court case was essentially the name given to five separate cases that were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court (History of Brown v. Board of Education). Each case was sent to the Supreme Court in 1952 (History of Brown v. Board of…

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    For over 60 years, students of all color and race have been integrated in all public and private schools. The Brown vs. Board of Education case had a significant impact to modern day education due to opportunity growth for African Americans and their peers. This case helped recognize the nation’s education system flaw that separate was not equal and the social division was not only unfair, but robbed African American students possibility of advancement and changed history for all students…

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    Brown v. Board of Education was a benchmark case in a long list of civil rights decisions that overturned the precedent of segregation that was upheld in the Supreme Court case Plessy V. Ferguson. The Brown case dealt with the issue of school segregation solely based on a student’s race and if all “tangible things” being equal, would the student in the minority school still be deprived of their “right to equal educational opportunities”? The Supreme Court had to decide if a precedent of…

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    Brown vs. the Board of Education started the civil rights act, is that after the Brown vs. the Board, African Americans decided to fight for what is right. I also think that more schools, businesses etc., realized that African Americans weren't going to stop fighting for their rights and slowly allowed them to enter, sit, stand, etc., with white people. I think that the Brown vs. the Board, caused African Americans to stand up for themselves. I also think that the Brown vs. the Board helped…

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    Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board due to the precedents they set and the history behind them. In short summary, Plessy v. Ferguson all started due to a black man, who often passed as white, sitting in the white section of a train. When he refused to get up, he was prosecuted and the precedent of “separate but equal” was set creating separate spaces for blacks and whites, that were meant to have “equal” amenities. After a hundred years of this segregation, Brown v. Board reversed this rule by…

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    Desegregation and Integration: How the Brown Versus Board Trial Changed America The end of the Jim Crown era was much more than the conclusion to government-supervised racism, but the start to new lives as minorities.” The Supreme Court made it clear that America’s commitment to civil rights was firm and unshakeable” (Shwarz 84).The ruling dramatically changed the society by declaring an end to segregation in schools. Minorities, who were forced to take a subjacent role on all topics of America…

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    case i think is the most important is Brown vs. Board of Education.This is the most important because it made the schools segregated between blacks and white in the schools.Earl Warren wrote the decision of the court case.Earl Warren agreed with the civil rights act.The court case happened because people thought white people had more power over the black people because they could go to school for a better education.The major court case of Brown vs. board of education happened on May 17,…

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    Case Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Parties Facts Linda Brown, an eight-year-old African American girl, was denied permission to attend an all white school only five blocks away from her home in Topeka, Kansas. Linda’s parents made the decision to file a lawsuit against the Board of Education of Topeka, alleging that they are depriving Linda of equal protection of laws as required under the Fourteenth Amendment. The courts denied that there were any violations of Linda Brown’s right…

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    and we passed, but not without some road bumps. There are so many struggles defeated that added up to desegregation. things like the 14th amendment, the boycotts, the sit-ins, and all of the legal battles. such as the Brown v. Board of education ruling. The Brown v. Board of education ruling was a pivotal moment in history, it was the point where all the past segregation cases like Plessy v. Ferguson boiled over, it then sparked the rest of the legal movement of the civil rights, its effect even…

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    In the 1991 court case, Board of Education of Oklahoma City v. Dowell, the court ruled to end the federal court desegregation orders. In 1972, the Oklahoma City Board of Education was issued a decree initiating a plan for desegregation. Later on, that case was terminated, but the decree of desegregation continued on. To solve busing problems for African American children, a Student Reassignment Plan or SRP was issued. This turned previously desegregated schools into a primarily one race school…

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