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This 3 page report discusses the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court of Brown Versus Board of Education which determined that it was wrong to segregate African American students from white students and schools. Facts of the case are presented along with the long-term positive impacts the court decision has had on American society. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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must truly be considered a "landmark" decision. When the Supreme Court determined that racially separate educational facilities were unequal and stressed equal educational opportunity, Americans had to rethink virtually every
aspect of the assumptions they had made about where and with whom children would be educated instead of just how they were to be taught. The mandate of
Brown v. Board of Education has served as a guiding force in issues related to equal education and the assurance that minority students have the same measure of opportunity to
become educated as any white child. Many of the hopes and dreams that began with Brown regarding equality among the many races of the American population have not been met
due to a far more deep-seated degree of racism in the American mindset than anybody truly wanted to admit. Despite the fact that Brown v. Board of Education addressed
how things should be done does not mean that the outcome has been one in which things are done that way. It is important to understand that, ultimately, the proposals
brought forth in the case were/are based on high democratic principles and have initiated a process of change that cannot be abandoned. The Facts of the Case
Dougherty (2002) explains that the case was based on the events surrounding the attempts by several African-American parents in Topeka, Kansas, including Oliver Brown, tried
but were unsuccessful in enrolling their children in white schools.1 "On the parents behalf, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which had long hoped to challenge
segregation in schools, organized a class-action lawsuit to end public school segregation in Topeka."2 That case was heard by the U.S. District Court of Kansas in June of 1951.
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