Separate_But_Equal

Separate But Equal Separate But Equal The film, “Separate But Equal,” follows the true story of the NAACP court challenge of racial school segregation. This was the struggle that would destroy the legal validity of racial segregation in general and prove to be the start of the first major victory of the Civil Rights movement. “Separate But Equal” is an excellent movie depicting the tragedy of the time of racial segregation in schools and the steps in which these men from the NAACP took to correct it. The constitutional question at issue in this movie is this: Is segregation by race in public schools legal' Today we know it is not legal, but in this movie, this is the point the NAACP sets out to prove. In amendment fourteen, section one, the equal protection clause states that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. The point to be proven here is that a child cannot be considered to be treated equal as long as the child is kept separate from children of another race. Separate schools cause continuing deprivation and harm to Negro children and should be discontinued. This was the point that Thurgood Marshall segregation, marshall, equal, case, amendment, schools, naacp, court, children, thurgood, separate, school, racial, teacher, supreme, protection, point, one, never, movie, justice, fourteenth, argues, way, state, question, prove, legal, jr, harry, county, clarendon, child, cause, briggs, black