Brown v. Board of Education Samantha Raihl Government 5/18/10

Constitutional Issue 14 th Amendment The amendment's Equal Protection Clause requires states to provide equal protection under the law. This clause became the basis for Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

Plaintiff NAACP-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP gather 13 parents who agreed to be plaintiffs on behalf of their 20 children. They try to enroll their children in segregated white schools and all children were denied. Although this was a class action it was named for one of the plaintiffs Oliver Brown.

Defended The Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas There were 18 neighborhood schools for white children, while African American children had access to only 4 schools. In February of 1951 the Topeka NAACP filed a case on their behalf.

Background Brown's daughter Linda, a third grader, had to walk six blocks, throw rail tracks that were dangerous. To her school bus stop to ride to Monroe Elementary her segregated black school one mile away, that had out of date textbooks and no supplies, while Sumner Elementary, a white school, was seven blocks from her house.

Opinion That schools should not have Segregation.

My Response! I believe that there should never of been Segregation in school. The court made a great decision as far as banning school Segregation.

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