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    segregated, public transportation was segregated, and even public education was segregated. The way segregation was practiced in public education was through: schools being separated by race, schools not being equally funded, and school buildings not of the same quality based on race. In 1954, a landmark case named Brown vs. The Board of Education ruled “that in public education the practice of separate but equal” has no place in public education. The result of this case was to end segregation…

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    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…

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    think the 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…

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    Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896, which stated the segregated facilities were constitutional as long as they were equal to each other. In the early 1950’s NAACP lawyers conveyed action lawsuits on behalf of African American children and their families in the states Kansas, South Carolina, Delaware and Virginia to allow black children the right to attend in all white school. The US Supreme Court decided to conjoin the five cases together and give it one name, Oliver Brown vs. Board of Education of…

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    for Brown vs. Board of Education”. Born in Buffalo, New York; he is an educated scholar who specializes in African American and civil rights history. Carson’s essay is summarizes how Brown affected the outcome of desegregation in public schools. Brown is a Supreme Court decision that ruled public schools to allow African American children to attend predominantly Caucasian schools. The argument the author states in the essay, (in the first paragraph), “we see clearly now that while the Brown…

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    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, 1954.This…

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    and the lives of everyday Americans For the supreme court case that I think has influenced our government and the lives of every day Americans the most is the Brown vs. Board of Education supreme court case. The Brown vs. Board of Education supreme court case is a case between a man named Oliver brown and the Board of Education. Oliver Brown was an African American that lived in Topeka Kansas 1954 he was trying to enroll his daughter in a all white school his daughter was denied from going to…

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    only constant in America and the Supreme Court has the power to change American’s minds. The Supreme Court cases Plessy versus Ferguson and Brown versus Board of Education are landmark cases that have sent precedent for the United States. The case Plessy versus Ferguson supported and encouraged segregation in the late 1800s. The case Brown versus Board of Education rejected this doctrine when an African-American child was declined admission into a white only school. These two cases still effect…

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    Supreme Court case; Brown v Board of Education. The rationale behind the Plessy v Ferguson was for black and white people to have different public amenities. This occurred during the Jim Crow era when there were laws enforcing racial segregation. The Plessy v Ferguson case was triggered when an African – American…

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    The Brown Vs. the board of education case had a major effect on numerous other similar cases. This case cased numerous individuals to see that the separation between educations was futile and did not help the children's education. It likewise did not offer the racism some assistance with going on at the time. In the 1950's, public places were segregated. There were black school were just colored children went. At that point there were white schools were white children went. Numerous white…

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