Brown V. Board Of Education Case Study

The case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas is one of the greatest legal victories achieved by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Initially, the “Jim Crow” laws were enacted, they were rulings that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. These ruling were detrimental to the black community. African Americans felt inferior because these kept powers to remain in the hands of whites while isolating black Americans from receiving the same benefits as their neighbors. Many African Americans (including some white people) argued the “separate but equal” doctrine was not fair. Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark case that challenged segregation laws in public schools. I choose this topic because currently more than 60 years after the Brown v. Board of Education, the debate continues in the search for ways of combating

racial inequalities in the nations school’s system. Urban neighborhoods are typically low in mathematics and the sciences. According to the Miami Herald, in the 2015-2016 school year, many urban schools saw a decline in the test scores in mathematics and the sciences. This is attributed to the low levels of exposure to experimentation and research in many urban high schools. Personally, this topic means very much to me because I along with the most disadvantaged black children have attended urban public schools; in which the education is demonstrably inadequate to make us as competitive with our counterparts.
In the book, We the People chapter 4 discusses civil liberties and civil rights.

According to the text, “Oliver Brown wish to enroll his daughter Linda Brown to an all-white summer school that was closer to their home. However, they were refused, Brown took the case to the NAACP, and soon after the case of Brown v. Board of Education was born” (Ginsberg et al. 116). It was a victory for African Americans when Thurgood Marshall along with a team of NAACP attorneys won the case. However, the success of the case was bittersweet because adjudication alone did not result in a greater number of schools being integrated. The chapter went on to mention “ten years after the Brown, fewer than 1 percent of black school-age children in the Deep South were attending schools with whites” (Ginsberg et al. 117). Steadily, however, this case paved the way for the Civil Rights movement and many other revolutionary actions in the black community. The chapter highlights the case of Brown v. Board of Education and how it was the small opening move to more social protests and more congressional

action.
The NAACP website is a great source for learning because it provided short yet detailed information about the legal history behind the case of Brown v. Board of Education. The website also highlights the organization primary goals and how they have positively impacted the black community for years. The website is indeed a good tool for learning about American politics because there are archives of documented history that can be found on their trusted site. Archives that dates back in the civil rights era to today of the many revolutionary changes that were instrumented by the NAACP. The NAACP role in the success of Brown v. Board of Education was vital in creating intense pressure for the federal government to start taking assertive actions to defend the black communities. I do feel, however, today many of the inequities in public schools are still at large. According to the article “Inequities between Suburban and Urban Schools,” Arthur Adkins stated “[Suburban] schools typically have better-qualified teachers, newer buildings, and ‘higher educational standards.” This shows that the black community still has a long way in fighting for equality in the nation school’s system. Then, we can truly triumph the victory of the Brown v. Board of Education.