Separate Is Not Equal Analysis

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BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION
Black people in the United States and all over the world should be able to access the same restaurants, schools, bathrooms and any public area or neighborhood as whites asians etc. regardless of who may think otherwise. Separate Is Not Equal.
In 1965, a little girl named Linda Brown was attending a segregated school for all African-Americans. During her time there, she would have to take an extensive bus ride to and from her home every day for her school, across the city, while there was another elementary school just 4 blocks from her home. Her and her father had talked to the NAACP, (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a credible civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color." W. E.B.) In order to initiate a plan to desegregate schools. They were going to stop by the closest school that she wasn’t allowed to go to because she was an African-American and the school was all-white. …show more content…

Finally the NAACP’s plan was seen as full-proof. They were going to file a lawsuit for violation of her fourteenth amendment. And as they were getting prepared, the case ultimately ended up in the hands of the Supreme Court. As it would regard the past landmark case Plessy v. Ferguson. The only court that can overrule the Supreme Court is the Supreme Court.
The Board of Education were more in tune with segregation and dividing kids up because that’s how it’s been for years before that. “Separate but equal” is what the courts decided in the 1800s Plessy

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