LAD 34: Brown vs the Board of Education

Schools across American were all segregated between black and white students. Until one day a black man, Oliver Brown, wanted to enroll his daughter into the near by white school; he was denied. So he went to the NAACP for help and they took his case to the Kansas courts. The NAACP argued that the school system made the black students feel inferior, but the Board argued that the segregation was just preparing them for the segregation they would face in the future. The Court ruled that the facilities were equal thus following the ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson, that they can be separate but equal. The NAACP took this case and others like it the supreme court. The court ruled that although the facilities were "equal" the curriculum was not. That the black school was inferior to the white school. Thus they ruled that Plessy v. Ferguson did not applied to schools. Although there was not time limit set for schools to desegregate, this was a huge step in the Civil Rights movement.