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THE SEGRAGATION OF WHITE AND BLACK CHILDREN

//Brown v. Board of Education// was not the first challenge the problem of school segregation. As soon as 1849, African Americans filed suit against the school board system that stated that racial segregation was nesscary, in the case of Roberts v. City of Boston. Oliver brown was just one of the 200 plantiffs in this case from five diffrent states who were part of the NAACPcases that were brought before the supreme court in 1951. The brown vs. board of education on Dcember 9, 1952 and was reargued Septemtber 8, 1953 and was resolved May17, 1954.

The plaintiffs say that seperated public schools are not equal and cannot be made equal, and that they are missing the equal protection of the laws. Because of the obvious importance of the question presented. the second Argument was heard in 1952, and it was heard on certain questions propounded by the Court. In each of the cases, minors of the Negro race, through their legal representatives, seek the aid of the courts in obtaining admission to the public schools of their community on a nonsegregated basis. In each instance, they had been denied admission to schools attended by white children under laws requiring or permitting segregation according to race.

In this case there are findings that the Negro and white schools together have been equalized, or are being equalized, with respect to buildings, qualifications and salaries of teachers, and other "tangible" factors.Our decision, therefore, cannot turn on a comparison of these factors in the Negro and white schools involved in each of the cases.

The main issue that was focused on in this case was whether or not the 14th Amendment was violated by denying education in a specific school simply due to race. The Amendment that was focused on stated, in summary, that no person, who is a citizen of the U.S, should be denied equal protection under the law,or the right to life, liberty or property.This was a major issue because seventeen states were still segregating their schools, four states gave the option of segregation to the school districts, eleven states had no specific laws regarding segregation and sixteen states prohibited it.

Chief Justice Earl Warren stated: code "To separate [elementary- and secondary-school   children] from others of similar age and    qualifications solely because of their race    generates a feeling of inferiority as to their    status in the community that may affect their    hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be    undone.  We conclude that in the field of public    education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal'    has no place.  Separate educational facilities    are inherently unequal."

code a year later,the Supreme Court created rules in which school boards would desegregate their schools.This decision, although said easy it was not enforced easily. School systems that had been segregated since they had begun, fight and fight hard. Three years after that ruling was made, federal troops had to escort nine black children into a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.





All and all the brown vs board of education was a landmark decision for the united states supreme court.Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren courts unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."

RESOURCES:

www.nationalcenter.org/**brown**.html laws.findlaw.com/us/347/483.html nypl.org zunal.com americanradioworks...
 * brownvboard**.org/summary/