CASE STUDY

CAse Study

CAse Study

The case known as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas actually included appeals from decisions in four separate states: Kansas, Delaware, South Carolina, and Virginia. Each case represented individual acts of courage by families willing to face local resistance—even hostility—to bring an end to segregation. In recent years, it has become fashionable for scholars to criticize the Supreme Court decision in Brown.

Critics have argued that the legal decision was weaker than it should have been uninspiring (Bell 2002lent about the implementation of the changes it was ordering (as evidenced the Court not ordering an immediate end ...