Brown vs. Board of education

Brown vs. Board of education

Introduction

Origin

The case of Brown vs. Board of education started when a girl named Linda Brown who was the daughter of Oliver Brown needed to walk for a mile just to get at the bus stop to get her school bus through the railroad switching station, after she had waited for the bus to reach black elementary school. In order to specifying more, she has to walk for a mile to get the bus for a school where only black children or children belonged to African American community went. Although, this may seems so absurd or illogical, because of the fact that an elementary school which was located in Topeka Kansas was situated right after few blocks away from Linda's home. But the problem was the fact that school was specifically for white children, and only white students can go to that elementary school. This overall case gives rise to only one question in the reader's mind and it is “Racism” (Bell, 2004).

In the view of the fact that in1950's racism was at its peak. It was a milestone in the history of the entire country where the prevalence of racism was identified and the factors which gave rise to this movement were uprooted. After hearing the confrontation, Oliver Brown instantaneously got her daughter's admission in the white school but she was not allowed to attend the white school. Her father than went to the chief McKinley Burnett of Topeka's branch of NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and raised a voice for help. The management of NAACP was highly devoted to facilitate Oliver Brown, as they themselves were waiting for getting any opportunity for a long time for an issue of segregation. Right after raising the complaint and help, other parents from the African American community joined Oliver Brown in the same case and in 1951; an injunction was requested by NAACP which would avert the segregation of Topeka's public schools (Gold, 2005).

Discussion

Supreme Cour Ruling regarding Seattle, Washington and Louisville, Kentucky

In (2006) Seattle, the Court never considered as segregated schools, but the city has struggled against widespread school segregation over the past fifty years. The Seattle children of color face barriers for equal educational opportunity. The city has recognized these problems and has tried many corrections, but its latest plan to ensure diversity is under attack by parents. Although it has been over fifty years since Brown v. Board of Education (Brown v. Board of Education), segregation and racist behavior are not a thing of the past. If not set standards that schools are a reflection of their local communities' larger battles against segregation will have to fight in court over and over again as schools and out of the cycle of segregating and not segregating.

Court Cases

Court's treatment as heard before is actually a new language of reform. For example, a post-Civil War reconstruction era discursive innovation like “separate but equal” can be largely refuted by a majority ...