Brown v. Board of Education (1954) pt2.
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- With the help of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), parents andstudents decided to challenge the Plessy decision. In Topeka, Kansas, Oliver Brown and several otherparents tried to enroll their children in the closer, whites-only schools. They were rejected. In the otherstates, peoples’ efforts to get better facilities for black schools were ignored.
- Let our children go to school!!!
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- The Supreme Court agreed. In a complete reversal from its decisionin the Plessy case, the Court said that the “separate but equal”doctrine “has no place” in public education. Separating children justbecause of race “generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status inthe community that may affect their hearts and minds in a wayunlikely ever to be undone.” Segregation therefore deprived blackstudents of equal protection of the laws under the 14th Amendment.
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- Justice Henry Billings Brown wrote the majority opinion and was joined by Justices Melville Weston Fuller, Stephen Johnson Field, Horace Gray, Rufus Wheeler Peckham, George Shiras, and Edward Douglass White. Justice John Harlan I wrote a dissenting opinion.The decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka on May 17, 1954 is perhaps the most famous of all Supreme Court cases, as it started the process ending segregation. It overturned the equally far-reaching decision of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.
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