Brown vs Board of education

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Commentaire sur une partie de L'arrêt Brown v. Board of Education : texte qui a permis le commencement de la déségrégation dans les lieux publics et principalement dans les écoles.

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[...] So even though they recognized the importance of school, they considered the distinctions before the trial to be normal, which shows that the 14th Amendment and its notion of fairness was not being respected. the process of the trial In 1951, the NAACP and the African American lawyer Thurgood Marshall took out an injunction to stop segregation in Topeka's public schools. The Brown's trial finally started on June 25th Of 1951 and for the first time, the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas heard the case. During the trial, "the plaintiffs contend that segregated public schools are not "equal" and cannot be made "equal,"(l14). [...]

[...] The Court finally confessed that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and even illegal. And Warren also argued that even if the features of a black school matched those of a white school, black children would still feel inferior because their skin colour made them attend a different school than the whites. He also said that, integrating public schools and make black children and white children learning together would provide equal levels of opportunity and would make them want to succeed. [...]

[...] Brown v. Board of Education was considered as a turning point in the history of America because it was the starting point of the racial integration's process, especially with schools. In the early 1950s public schools in 17 states were racially segregated. So in Topeka, Linda Brown, a black third-grader, had to walk one mile just to get to her black school, even though there was a white elementary school only seven blocks away. Here is a little video to show what she had to go through just to get to school. [...]

[...] And even the small number of people who did often suffered harassment. However, the Brown verdict was also supported by some Americans and some school districts integrated peacefully. Encouraged by the success of the verdict, the NAACP developed its civil rights activism in many fields such as transportation, restaurants, and voting booths to extend equality and freedoms to black people. Today, Brown v. Board of Education is seen, among other things, as the starting point of the Civil Rights Movement. [...]

[...] So, unsurprisingly, the court's ruling was in favour of the board of education and they used Plessy vs Ferguson as their justification. In 1952, thanks to the NAACP three cases were in the Supreme Court, and the Brown's case was rescheduled, to be heard a second time in 1953. By 1953 two more cases had been added, as we see in the text Linda Brown was not the only one "These cases come to us from the States of Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware."l1 and the 5 cases were known as one : Brown v. [...]