Brown vs Board of Education
Imagine going to school day after day and constantly feeling inferior. In the early 1900s, African American teenagers had to feel this way every single day due to the fact that they were shutout and mocked. North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Arkansas all were challenged by racial segregation in public schools. “In 1954, large portions of the United States had racially segregated schools, made legal by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which held that segregated public facilities were constitutional so long as the black and white facilities were equal to each other” (McBride). Yet, this was not the case. These so called “equal facilities” were far from equal. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored …show more content…
Before the case, the laws were spreading like wildfire. “The News and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, the oldest newspaper in the South, had ridiculed racial separation in 1898 in the wake of the Plessy decision; Jim Crow railroad cars, it said disapprovingly, would soon prompt Jim Crow streetcars and restaurants and saloons, and before long the courts would Jim-Crow the jury box and the witness stand and boast ‘a Jim Crow Bible for colores witnesses to kiss’” (Kluger, 86). The Jim Crow laws affected every possible situation. The laws allowed there to be separation as long as the places and facilities were maintained and treated equally. Yet, this was not the case in several places because the white facilities were far more taken care of than the blacks. There were many arguments upholding this situation. One being Chief Justice Earl Warren, who stated in his argument against racial segregation, “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The Jim Crow laws went against every right the African American people had. Brown vs Board of Education fought for their equality in school
Imagine going to school day after day and constantly feeling inferior. In the early 1900s, African American teenagers had to feel this way every single day due to the fact that they were shutout and mocked. North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Arkansas all were challenged by racial segregation in public schools. “In 1954, large portions of the United States had racially segregated schools, made legal by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which held that segregated public facilities were constitutional so long as the black and white facilities were equal to each other” (McBride). Yet, this was not the case. These so called “equal facilities” were far from equal. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored …show more content…
Before the case, the laws were spreading like wildfire. “The News and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, the oldest newspaper in the South, had ridiculed racial separation in 1898 in the wake of the Plessy decision; Jim Crow railroad cars, it said disapprovingly, would soon prompt Jim Crow streetcars and restaurants and saloons, and before long the courts would Jim-Crow the jury box and the witness stand and boast ‘a Jim Crow Bible for colores witnesses to kiss’” (Kluger, 86). The Jim Crow laws affected every possible situation. The laws allowed there to be separation as long as the places and facilities were maintained and treated equally. Yet, this was not the case in several places because the white facilities were far more taken care of than the blacks. There were many arguments upholding this situation. One being Chief Justice Earl Warren, who stated in his argument against racial segregation, “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The Jim Crow laws went against every right the African American people had. Brown vs Board of Education fought for their equality in school