Brown V. Board Of Education Case Study

On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court face with the most difficult ruling in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. It unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and it over turns Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) decision of separate but equal because White public schools and Black public schools were not equal. The lawsuit was filed by a woman name Oliver Brown, who children was denied access to the Topeka’s White schools. She sued the school board because the city of Topeka violated the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause because the Topeka’s black and white schools were not equal to each other in terms of education

Board of Education case because sometimes States can refuse to force a federal law. During this time the Jim Crow laws were in full affect in the south, and just because the Supreme Court ruled in favorite of Brown when it came to integrating school in the south that did not mean that every southern individual agree with the ruling. Black people were still getting segregate by White people in public place even Black children were still not allow in White schools like the Little Rock Nine. In the fall of the 1957 Little Rock became the symbol of State resistance to school desegregation. Arkansas Governor Orval E. Faubus did not agree with the ruling that the Supreme Court made in the Brown case, so he did want any racism person who are in power would do, he went directly to congress and the authority of the United States Supreme Court asked them if they can reverse their ruling that would allow nine African American high school students who would be attending all white Little Rock Central School. The Supreme Court denied his request and the people in his State took the matter in their own hands by beating every black children that would try to attend a white school. These riots went on for several days in the States of Arkansas and it did not look good under President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration, so he decided to send federal troops to ensure the rights of African American Children who would be attending all white schools. Eisenhower became the first president since the post-civil war Reconstruction period to use federal troops in support of African American civil