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behalf of black children and their families in several states, looking for court orders to get school districts to let black and white students attend the same public schools. One of these lawsuits, Brown vs. Board of Education, was filed against the Topeka, Kansas’s Board of Education by representative and plaintiff Oliver Brown. Brown himself had a child who was denied access to Topeka’s white public schools. Brown claimed that the city's racial segregation violated the…

I have chosen to examine both theorists Martin Luther King Jr, and Malcom X in my proposal. The reason for choosing Dr. King and Malcolm X is that they were both famous African Americans in the 1960s. These two individuals grew to be famous in their own right. Today many people throughout the United States continue to read their writings, and magazine articles. Dr. King was a peaceful man who came from a middle-class family and where education was important. Malcolm X came from an…

Rock, Arkansas. Where nine Black teenagers were trying to integrate into a White school, but State Officials were blocking this integration. President Eisenhower was enforcing the Brown Supreme Court decision. In 1954 Brown V Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas came to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Brown, meaning that all public schools would be integrated. President John F. Kennedy’s executive staff wrote the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This act integrated public…

Brown v Board of Education: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas was a landmark case of the United States’ Supreme Court. It was the combination of five “…cases from four states and the District of Columbia…that reached the Supreme Court in 1952” (Give Me Liberty! 953) that challenged the controversial “separate but equal” policy regarding segregated facilities that resulted from the Plessy v. Ferguson case in 1896. In this case, the plaintiffs targeted the outstanding differences…

Thurgood Marshall; A Hero For Our Country When we think of a hero, we think of Superman, Batman, Spider Man, Wonder Woman, the Hulk, Iron Man, and the list goes on and on. But those are superheroes. What about real life heroes. Like historical figure heroes. People like Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman. But there are others, too. Thurgood Marshall is a hero. He promoted social equality in court cases, took charge in the fight…

The Lincoln Preparatory School was previously known as Grambling State University Laboratory School. It was a public high school operated by the Lincoln Parish School Board in Grambling Louisiana (Lincoln Preparatory School - FAQ. 2017). However, dating back in history, from 1984, the Grambling State University lab schools had never fully compiled with court desegregation orders (Lincoln Preparatory School - FAQ. 2017). As a result, the 1966 desegregation case was revived by the Department of…

still legal in most southern states so laws allowed places to practice these laws and rules and get away with it. But the Fourteenth Amendment granted equal rights, but these state-to-state laws went against the amendment. Tensions heated up in a Topeka, Kansas school district. African-Americans were not allowed to…

Civil rights in America has been a problem for blacks, hispanics, and other non white races. The civil war was the bloodiest war America has ever been involved in and one of the main reasons it was fought was the argument whether or not slavery should be allowed in the U.S. The north didn't need slaves as much as the south so they saw no need for them but the south needed them for all their farming so they didn't want to give them up. After four hard years of fighting the north won and president…

Since 1991 the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas has preached their hatred towards jews, catholics, homosexuals, and numerous funerals. Over the years the Westboro Church has formed into a hate group more than a religion. The church was founded by Fred Phelps. The church started off as a normal southern baptist church back when it was founded in the 1950’s. But as time went on Fred preached his beliefs to his small group of his parishioners. Fred Phelps forced his own incite onto God’s…

Education is a very important aspect of the current world. In order to be successful, people have to have a stable or well enough education because it is difficult to see a world without one. In the 1950's, white Americans segregated themselves from African-Americans. They believed that education should be equal even when separate. The case of Brown vs. Board of Education has had a deep effect on the people of the United States and it proved that unsegregated education had an educational,…