Brown vs Board of Education
Emily Hood
Summary
- Brown vs Board of Education was what got public schools to stop being segregated
- Allowed blacks and whites to go to the same school
- Started when Oliver Brown filed a complaint with the school board of Topeka, Kansas
- He didn't understand why his 2 children had to walk 3 miles to get to a school that wasn't as nice as the one 1 mile away from his home
- Went all the way up to the Supreme Court
- Voted unconstitutional
- All public schools were told to desegregate schools at their own time
- Took many years to complete
Dates
- Argued December 9th, 1952
- Reargued December 8th, 1953
- Decided May 17th, 1954
Impact on the Civil Rights Movement
- Black and whites could go to the same school
- Began desegreting of the whole country
- Opened Americas eyes of how messed up segregation was