Constitution for explicitly guaranteeing every citizen equal protection of the laws. In deciding how to rule, the Court examined all of the details of the plaintiffs’ cases as well as all of the specifics of how, why, and for what purpose the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment thought it was necessary to add a provision to the U.S. Ferguson, which established the standard of “separate but equal” within the United States. The reason for these rulings in state courts was based on the 1896 decision by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. In each case, the plaintiffs had been denied the right to attend a predominantly white school either by the power of established laws that enforced segregation or by policies that otherwise excluded African Americans from attending public school with whites. The basis of the case under examination in Brown was that in denying the students access to white schools in their respective districts, violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment had occurred. In each case, an African American child had been refused entry into a traditionally all-white school. When the school board refused Brown admittance, he brought the case to the court system for resolution.īrown was heard before the Supreme Court as an amalgamation of cases filed in the states of Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware. To get to her school, she and her sister had to cross an active railroad yard and then walk another 2 miles before they arrived at school. The reasons for the case were simple enough, Brown, an African American father in the city of Topeka Kansas, wanted to enroll his daughter in an all-white school which was closer to his home and less dangerous to get to than the all-black school that she had been attending.

This landmark case not only set the stage for the Civil Rights Movement in America it also had a ripple effect on the American educational system, which has lasted until the present day. One of the most influential cases ever decided by the United States Supreme Court was the ruling in the case of Brown v. Board Of Education On The American Educational System

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