Brown v. Board of Education (Reax)

 Brown v. Board of Education 

Brown v. Board of Education was a monumental case in the history of the United States. It established that racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional. This case started in 1951 and ended in 1954. This case ruled that segregation in schools were unconstitutional. This is one of the most known cases in America's history.

This case relates all the way back to the case of Plessy v. Ferguson where the separate but equal clause was made. Which meant that as long as African Americans had the same facilities as white people it was okay as long as they remained separated. You may wonder how this relates back to the Plessy v. Ferguson case; Brown v. Board of Education relates back to this case by when the government created the separate but equal clause it opened up the pathway for the Brown v. Board of Education case which would result in establishing that racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional. According to Brown v. Board of Education- HISTORY, "In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that racially segregated public facilities were legal, so long as the facilities for Black people and whites were equal."

This separate but equal clause went on for a very long time. This was also taking place when there was something called Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws help to establish the separate but equal clause. According to Brown v. Board of Education- HISTORY, "...African Americans from sharing the same buses, schools and other public facilities as whites-known as "Jim Crow" laws- and established "separate but equal" doctrine that would stand for the next six decades."

Eventually over time the NAACP was created by the 1950s. NAACP stood for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Just as a reminder during the time that Brown v. Board of Education had taken place America was still going through a time where the country was very divided when it came to the topic of slavery. The North was more antislavery, and the South was more proslavery. The NAACP really wanted to help change segregation laws specifically in public schools. According to Brown v. Board of Education- HISTORY, "But by the early 1950s, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was working hard to challenge segregation laws in public schools..."

Plessy v. Ferguson, Jim Crow laws, and the NAACP all played a role in leading up to the Brown v. Board of Education case. Each of these events paved a pathway for the ruling to be made in Brown v. Board of Education. All of these events allowed the government to see that everything that had been doing was not working anymore or really at all. According to Brown v. Board of Education- HISTORY, "In the decision, issued on May 17, 1954, Warren wrote that "in field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place," as segregated schools are "inherently unequal."

After all these events took place, the government did eventually acknowledge that the way they were running things were unconstitutional and not working. Their method of doing things at this time did not provide a stable economy within America. This case displayed that the government was dysfunctional and not fully abiding by our Amendments. According to Brown v. Board of Education- HISTORY, "As a result, the Court rules that the plaintiffs were being "deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the 14th Amendment."

Brown v. Board of Education was a case that made the government in America at that time have to accept the fact that African Americans are a valuable part of the economy. Some of the things that we have today was invented by African Americans. This case caused the government to have to see African Americans as humans and not as property. Brown v. Board of Education was definitely a case that changed America and one that is commonly known in history.