2.  Oliver Brown was an African American railroad worker who had a daughter. She wanted to go to school but the school closest to them was for only white children and did not accept her in.  Brown sued the Board of Education.

3.  Brown’s case was set in 1954 decided by the Supreme court of the United States.  His trial took place in Shawnee County, Kansas.

4.  The case was declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional.  Many areas of the U.S, especially in the South were racially segregated.

5.  Thurgood Marshall attacked the “ separate but equal” rule by arguing that segregation harms minority students by making them feel inferior and this inferring with their ability to learn.  The court agreed with Marshall and declared that separate educational facilities could never be equal.

6.  By 1960, several Southern states still had no black students enrolled in public white schools.  Some progress was made in the late 1960’s  In the 1970’s, courts in the united states ordered many cities to begin busing students between neighborhoods to integrate public schools.

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9.  State laws called Jim Crow Laws required or permitted such separation between black and whites.  Some black students still go to segregated schools.

10.  Our opinion is that there is no difference between blacks and whites beside their skin color so they should be aloud to go to the same school.

11.  Worldbook 2002  Pictures from Google images  Clip art