Brown vs Board of education

Brown versus Board of Education

Brown versus the Board of Education of Topeka , Kansas was one of a group of cases that was being brought before the Supreme Court in the early 1950 's by the NAACP to challenge the concept of separate but equal ' The story began in 1950 when several parents went up against the Topeka school board that would only allow black children to attend one of the four segregated schools in the area . Oliver Brown was one of this group , having brought his daughter to the local school , tried

to enroll her and was turned away (National Park Service , 10

The case was brought to court by the NAACP 's Legal Defense Fund , and was later combined with several other cases such as Briggs v . Elliot and Bolling v . Sharpe (National Park Service , 10 . The NAACP brought the suit with the focus that school segregation was a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment 's clause that provided for equal protection . Its original purpose had been to ensure all blacks equal status as citizens of the United States after the Civil War (Martin 2 .The legal team also put forth that when black children attended racially segregated schools it caused them harm by creating a stigma of inferiority (Martin 2

This stigma was supported by research stating that racial segregation could have a harmful impact on a child 's development as they grew and on individual self-worth . There was even evidence presented of the bad effects that segregation...