Topeka

1) In 1985, the United States Supreme Court decided Tennessee V. Garner, that the court held that a police officer may not use deadly force to apprised a fleeing felon who does not pose a “significant threat of death or series physical injury to the officer or others. This was because of Edward Garner was a juvenile (15 years old) who burglarized a home stealing $10.00 and a purse. He jumped over the backyard fence to escape after police ordered him to halt, at which point police shot him in the…

significant cases. He worked with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People branch in Baltimore. Mr. Marshall tried several cases. The greatest achievement of his career, would be 1954 Supreme Court Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. On May 17, 1954, the Court unanimously ruled that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal”, and therefore racial segregation of public schools violated the equal protection clause of the 14 amendment. 5. Legal Rights and…

Public Education is a widespread way of providing education to citizens of a country. The main features of such an education is that this is a relatively cheap to obtain such an education if compared to the private education. Furthermore, Public Education starts from primary schools to the Post Doc Schools. This increases the overall scope of Public Education. It is essential to note that education is basically the foundation of almost all great things, including the emergence of the United…

I. Introduction The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on February 3, 1870 and granted African American men the right to vote by declaring the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." (U. S. Const. amend. XV). The Thirteenth Amendment emancipated million of enslaved black people, full citizenship was guaranteed by the Fourteenth…

On May 17, 1954 Brown v. Board of Education was decided unanimous by the Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall, NAACP’s chief counsel, argued the case before the Supreme Court. The decision was based upon the inherently unequal “separate but equal” clause and violation of the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered the opinion of the court, also stating basing facilities upon race create inferiority among African American children that proved to be damaging to…

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 class action suit,…

people regardless of color, race, or religion deserve to be equally protected under the law. Not only do they have the right to be protected but they have the right to have an equal opportunity to thrive. Brown went against the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas because he believed that his daughter and other colored children deserved quality education and because he lived by a white school, however because of segregation his little girl had to travel a much further distance to a colored…

Separate is Not Equal Tefari Bailey Student #: 5698006 POLI 1P91 TA: Cor Due Date: Monday November 16th Dr. Matthew Hennigar Introduction Segregation of education, for whites and coloured students has a mental effect on colored children. This stress becomes…

"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal"said by Martin Luther king Jr. As well as civil rights act stopped segregation it was during the time of 1964 there was discrimination on every race,sex,color,national origin, as well their religion. As a matter a fact segregation was later over and every race had the same rights as Americans.In addition freedom that every race has today is because these court cases: Dred Scott v. Sanford, Brown v.…

When I first came to Washburn University as a freshman, my major was Biochemistry/Pre-Med. Towards the end of my first semester I decided that I didn’t want to be a Pre-Med major anymore. However, I still wanted to stay in the medical field so I chose to go into nursing. I have always loved the sciences and liked to help people so it seemed like a perfect fit! The reason I am motivated to get my BSN is because it will provide me with a more advanced career and higher financial income than…