Brown V Board Of Education Essay

The Supreme Court case, Brown v Board of Education, greatly influenced the direction of the U.S constitution with the addition of the 14th amendment that made great progress with our education system. Once slavery was abolished in January 31st, 1865, many African American’s thought that there would be no more racism happening in the world. Sadly, things didn’t work as the African American’s thought it would. The case Plessy vs Ferguson said even though the two races were separate, they were equal. The phrase, “separate but equal” , meant that places that were public will be divided by the race. For example, if you were white, you wouldn’t be able to go to the same bathroom as an African American man. Also, African Americans were not able to
They favored the Brown unanimously, by saying segregation denied the rights of African American and offered whites better experience (uscourt.gov). The Justices immediately gave out a plan on how to start desegregating. Even though the Justices gave out the plan as fast as they could, it obviously took a while until everyone in the school were treated equally. After the Brown v Board of Education, there was 9 students who attended an all white school, Little Rock Central high school. Even though they were accepted somehow into the all white school, they were obviously treated wrong. Troops of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army had to escort the 9 children inside and out of the school because the white children and parents were still discriminatory.. In the end, this eventually played hefty role in the Civil Rights movement.

Thanks to the Brown v Board of Education, the world has become a better place. All of the schools in the United States are now desegregated. If the case was never to happen, segregation could have still been happening, and we wouldn’t be able to see any other races going to the same