Brown vs topeka 1954

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Brown vs topeka 1954

Causes

  • Linda brown made to walk far to school, despite being nearer a segregated school
  • Plessy vs Ferguson said that 'separate but equal'

Effects

  • More than 300,000 black children were attending schools that had formally been integrated
  • However 2.4 million black southern children were still educated in 'Jim crow schools'
  • ST- southern states legislatures passed more than 450 laws and resolutions aimed at preventing the brown decision from being enforced.
  • chief Justice warren wrote that ‘separate but equal’ has no place,” as segregated schools are “inherently unequal.”
  • ST- many southern state schools found ways to avoid complying with the court rules
  • ST- black students and teachers faced violence and threats

Overall summary

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of Education was one of the cornerstones of the civil rights movement, and helped establish the precedent that “separate-but-equal” education and other services were not, in fact, equal at all.

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