SUPREME COURT'S DECISION AND CONSTITUTION

Supreme Court's Decision and Constitution

Supreme Court's Decision and Constitution

Introduction

In May 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the landmark case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, ushered in an era that ended the right of States to mandate the separation of races in public education (Brown, 2006). While the original court ruling on the case Brown did not end the separate schooling, it gives the plaintiffs in separate schools the right to demand an end to segregation in more than 2200 school districts that operate so-called dual system (Clotfelter, 2007). In two or separate systems, advice on the merits of running two systems side by side, one for whites, and another, usually of low quality, for blacks (Coons, 2008).

Evidence

In oral arguments, the NAACP challenge was to convince the Supreme Court that Plessy was wrongly decided and to prove that, even where numbers were equal, segregation of harmful psychological effects on Black children's ability to get an education (Davis, 2005). Psychologist Kenneth Clark presented evidence on the harmful effects of segregation on black children. These statements were developed in the case of Briggs.

Among the harms that some of the adults who brought the case, incurred as a result of that leader, JA Delaine, was fired from his job as a teacher, Levi Pearson crops rot in the field because he can not get credit for cleaning machines them, and Harry Briggs, called the plaintiff was fired as gas station attendant, while his wife was fired from his job as a motel maid (Coons, 2008).

Ruling

In making its monumental decision to exclude segregation by race, the Supreme Court ruled that "the segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, despite the physical facilities and other" tangible "factors may be equal, deprive the children a small group of equal educational opportunity" (Clotfelter, 2007). As important as Brown was struck down desegregation of schools, the court did not consider the remedies (Brown, 2006). Instead, the court ordered additional oral arguments on the issue of remedies.

For the Supreme Court in Brown II, calling for an end to segregated schooling "with all deliberate speed" (p. 301) offered guidance to the federal courts of the court to eliminate a dual system of public schools and to monitor how well their directives seek (Davis, 2005 ). The court also gave local school officials and public authorities responsible for implementation of decisions ...