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- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
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- Why am I treated this way? Hopefully, one day I can be treated equally like whites.
- You don't belong here! This school is for whites only!
- Get out of our school!
- Leave!
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- You guys are having the same problem?!
- They won't allow my daughter in a WHITE school!
- I can't believe this!!
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- By: Diana Perez
- Arriving at the Supreme Court (1954)
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- This case originated in 1954, when Oliver Brown attempted to enroll his daughter, Linda Brown in a school closest to her home, but was not allowed and was required to take a bus to a segregated black school that was farther away.
- We have finally come to a decision. Segregated schools violate the equal protection of the 14th Amendment. Brown wins. Next case!
- Making a decision and the ruling of the Supreme Court
- The Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. Segregated schoolsviolated the14th Amendment, whichstates that "no state should deny the equal protection of the laws."
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- Brown and other black families were also having the same situations and filed class actionlawsuits. The National Association for the Advancment of Colored People (NAACP), then became involved to represent the Brown family.The case was taken to the U.S. District Court in Kansas, but the court ruled that segregation in public schools contributed to some "inferiority", but still supported the "seperate but equal" concept. This case then became a case in the Supreme Court.
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- Brown vs. Board of Education
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