The Case Of Brown V. Board Of Education

You can’t really say that civil rights begins with one person or action. It’s something that grows from the injustice people see and encounter. Those people don’t just sit and wait for history to happen for them, they do something, because they know. They know that if they didn’t do anything, then nothing’s going to change. That being said, one of the most groundbreaking civil rights movements to happen in America was the famous Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Held in the year 1954, this case had overturned the statement made by Plessy v. Ferguson that separate was ok as long as it was equal. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka set forth that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal, and as a result segregated schools violated the constitutional rights for African Americans. …show more content…
Board of Education that it was time to integrate, some states didn’t really care what the federal government had to say. For instance, The governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, decided that he hated integration so much that on September 4, 1957 he ordered the national guard to block nine black students from entering the building, therefore infringing on their constitutional rights. Guess who really didn’t appreciate him doing that. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In fact, he ordered the same national guard to escort those very students into the school. One of the nine, Ernest Green, was the first African American to graduate from Central High School. This really showed everyone that the people and the federal government were very serious and would protect the rights of the citizens leading to the creation of the Civil Rights Act of