Why was the struggle over desegregated education in the 1950's important?
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- Why was the struggle over desegregated education important?
- 1952- test case Linda Brown
- NAACP brought a court case against the Board of Education in Topeka
- She had to travel several miles to school and across a dangerous train track
- white only school that was closer
- May 1954- in favour of Linda Brown
- this case showed segregation could not be equal and it created feelings of inferiority
- integrated schools in the Southern States were ordered to be set up with deliberate speed
- This set up a template for righting for equality
- However, the Southern States were extremely segregated- bars, fountains, toilets etc.
- the states tried to ignore the Supreme Court ruling and looked for loopholes to avoid desegregated schools
- some state schools were changed into private ones to avoid desegregation
- First real test case of President Eisenhower and the Federal Government to see the law enforced came in 1957 at Little Rock, Arkansas (on another mind map)
- 1952- test case Linda Brown
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