Brown Vs Board Of Education
May 17, 1954 was a date that would change history not only in the field of education, but in most peoples lives. In the year 1954 a cased named " Brown vs. The Board of Education " had been taken up all the way to the Supreme court. It was a controversial court case that tried to pass a law to un-segregate public school. The law was eventually passed, but caused mass outrages but also it brought people together. There was much segregation at the time, and
education.
Linda Brown was a normal third-grader that went to school in Topeka, Kansas. She was an African American girl that walked a mile to school everyday even though there was an all white elemantary school, seven blocks away. " Linda's father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her in the white elementary school, but the principal of the school refused"(Comens). Mr. Brown decided to take his problem to the NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). The NAACP agreed to help the Brown family.
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