Supreme Court Case

The reason I chose the Supreme Court case Browder vs. Gayle was because of its segregation. In the early nineteen hundreds blacks and whites were separated, if they were to walk into a restaurant they had to sit in the back, the blacks had different bathrooms than the whites, and they weren’t near as clean or high in class as for the whites were. And this was a time when everybody was supposed to be “equal”. There were several cases that blacks have tried to reach the Supreme Court but end up falling a little short each time, but the Browder vs. Gayle case went through, and won. The Browder vs. Gayle was a significant case in the U.S history. If this case didn’t pass through Supreme Court, Jackie Robinson maybe never played major league baseball, and President Obama wouldn’t quite be a president. Segregation could still be a part of our culture if this case hasn’t had won. The Supreme Court case Browder vs. Gayle was first introduced on February 1st 1956 and then nine months later it was passed through Supreme Court. ** It was four women in particular — Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald, Claudette Colvin and Mary Louise Smith — who served as plaintiffs in the legal action challenging Montgomery's segregated public transportation system. It was their case — Browder v. Gayle — that a district court and, eventually, the U.S. Supreme Court would use to strike down segregation on buses. Probably the most well-known of the four plaintiffs was Claudette Colvin. A 15-year old student at Booker T. Washington High School, she boarded a bus on March 2, 1955. After refusing to give up her seat to a white man, Colvin was handcuffed, arrested and forcibly removed from the bus, as she screamed that her Constitutional rights were being violated. Claudette Colvin after being arrested said “ Mrs. Parks said always do what was right” those words our very power for me because not only did Rosa Parks preach about only doing the right thing she fought for it too. And shortly after, 9