Brown V. Board of Education

" Racial segregation in public education has a detrimental effect on minority children because

it is interpreted as a sign of inferiority . The long held doctrine that separate facilities were

permissible provided they were equal was rejected ".



   A Class action lawsuit was brought against the city of Topeka ,Kansas . Black children were denied

access to white schools but asserted that the school systems did not follow the doctrine of "separate

but equal" because they were not equal to white schools and that there was no way they could ever be

equal . It was brought to the supreme court and would have to pretty much override an earlier

supreme court ruling of Plessy V. Ferguson , which held that segregation was legal but only if the

separate facilities were equal.


The courts ruling was 9-0 in favor of brown . I chose this case because this pretty set up the premise

of my education today because I am African American and it has given me the ability to experience a

quality public school education , although many schools that are not white still experience being

behind. It was said that despite the equalization of the schools by "objective" factors , intangible

issues foster and maintain inequality .  I totally agree with the what was said about racial segregation

in public education has a detrimental effect on minority children and that effect is still felt today and

is also in addition to the fragile state of the African American in the U.S .  The effects of slavery and

segregation has set many behind.


I believe this case is important because it overrides the beliefs and doctrines of racist ideology

and agendas  that were held and accepted in the United States of America .