Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. The case was brought by Linda Brown and other African American families against the Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas, as their local schools were racially segregated. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal and violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This overturned the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision that had established the "separate but equal" doctrine. The Brown ruling had major impacts by desegregating all public schools and rejecting racial segregation in other public facilities across the United States.

1. Brown v. Board of Education
Taylor Allison

2. Background
Knowledge
This case take place in the 1950’s, when
segregation was apart of our society’s way of
living. Nearly almost everything was separated
among the races, Black and White. When it
comes to this case though, it is related to schools
in which were segregated as well. It started of
with a little girl named Linda Brown. Her and
her parents lived in Topeka, Kansas where they
lived only a few blocks from a school but it was
considered a White school only. Instead they had
to travel all the way across town in order for
Linda to go to an African American school. Her
parents and some other parents took this court
and tried to go against segregation in school. It
eventually got to the Supreme court where
Thurgood Marshall fought for the case.

3. Why was it so
important? What
Constitutional
issues were
questioned in this
case?
The reason this case was so important is because
it was an attempt for equality for African
Americans in America at a time where equality
was not very popular. Blacks were segregated in
many places like restaurants, movie theaters,
and even down to the littlest things like water
fountains. So to be able for them to go to the
same school was a big deal. In the court they
argued that was unconstitutional to be
segregated in schools due to the Fourteenth
Amendment that provides “equal protection”.

4. Who wrote it? Earl Warren a member of
the Supreme Court justice
delivered the unanimous
ruling in the landmark
civil rights case Brown v.
Board of Education of
Topeka, Kansas.

5. Similar cases that
were affected
A very similar case to this
happened in 1896 Plessy v.
Ferguson. That case stated
“separate but equal” and
with this case of Brown v.
Board of Education, it
simply rejected that case
and by doing so the court
stated that “separate is
not equal”.

6. Lasting Affect Since this case in
1954 was over, all
races can go to
the same schools
today.

7. Opinion of the
verdict
With this case the verdict is the
Board of Education, and my
opinion on it is that it was apart of
society at the time. Even though it
was very, very, very unfair to
segregate at all, half of the country
was segregated. Like I said before,
even restaurants or movie theaters
were even segregated.

8. Sources
http://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/supreme-court-
landmarks/brown-v-board-education-podcast
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/brown-v-board