Racial Segregation Research Paper

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Around mid-1950’s history was made for the United States, when all the ruckus between whites and blacks became justified. Racial segregation was happening in 17 other states including Topeka,Kansas. African-American children in Topeka were getting denied from attending the same public schools as the white children were going because of the race they were. African-Americans were constantly trying to fight for the same rights as the Americans were getting but things just did not go good for them. The African-Americans were always segregated,they had different restaurants,water fountains, restrooms, schooling,etc. Things were just not equal, the whites had more rights than any other race. To begin with, Oliver Brown’s daughter Linda at the time got denied from a public school just five blocks down from his home because she was not white orientated. Mr.Brown finally had enough of the commotion about blacks not being good enough to share public schooling. Americans were constantly looking down on African-Americans because of their skin color and how they were “different” when all that was different was their skin …show more content…

The Court weighed carefully on the considerations involving adherence to legal precedent, social-science findings on the negative effects of segregation, and the marked inferiority of the schools that African Americans were forced to attend. At first the Supreme Court did not want to give any acknowledge towards the case they kept going around but they start noticing it was becoming a big deal. The Supreme Court took the case into consideration and decide to take a look on the cases. All the main problems were in Southern Schools, segregation was very bad across the south; things were just worsening every day that the trial was happening. Americans were getting angry that the Supreme Court actually took consideration for the

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