Brown_Vs_Board_of_Education

Brown Vs Board of Education Brown Vs. Board of Education Racial segregation in public schools began in 1892 over the United States Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson’s, “separate but equal” doctrine, that lasted until the early 1950’s. This precedent legally enabled “separate” facilities for African Americans and Caucasians, as long as they were “equal”. During the turn of the 19th century, the term “Jim Crow” was used to refer to African Americans. This term would later be used as the name of the laws that kept African Americans from public functions and places. It would not be until 1954, that the “separate but equal” doctrine would be changed for good. One day Reverend Oliver Brown took his eight-year-old daughter, Linda Carol, for a walk to the Sumner Elementary School located just seven blocks from her house in Topeka, Kansas. After a discussion Brown had with the principal over the enrollment of his daughter, he was informed that she would not be admitted to the school even though she qualified. The reason she was not admitted to the school was because of the color of her skin, Sumner Elementary only accepted Caucasian children. Reverend Brown was not a man who caused brown, schools, case, court, african, equal, school, because, americans, decision, board, vs, supreme, naacp, maycomb, education, segregation, public, children, amendment, tried, topeka, separate, over, even, cases, upon, segregated, people, laws, just, fourteenth, dudley, day, black, based, although, until, unequal, town, together, sumner, states, skin, shall, rights, one, oliver, nor, man, life