A black child in the third grade had to walk 1 mile through a railroad yard to get to her school, even though there was a white school closer to her home. Her parents tried to enroll her in the closer, white school but were denied by the principal. They went to the NAACP to request an end to school segregation. In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, combining five similar cases from Delaware, Washington D.C., Kansas, South Carolina, and Virginia that challenged segregation. While the text does not directly reference Brown v. Board, it indirectly relates through showing how segregation forced black children to go farther for school than

4. 1 mile
7 blocks

5. A black child in the third grade had
to get up and walk a mile through a
railroad yard to get to school when
there was a white school closer to
her. Her parents tried to enroll her in
the other school but the principle
wouldn’t allow it. They went to
NAACP and requested that their
would be no segregation in schools.

6. Decided upon May 17, 1954.All of the following 5 case were put into 1 supreme
court case.
Belton (Bulah) v. Gebhart [Delaware]
Bolling v. Sharpe [District of Columbia]
Brown v. Board of Education [Kansas]
Briggs v. Elliott [South Carolina]
Davis v. County School Board [Virginia]
All of these cases challenged segregation (racial) in public schools and in the end it
was declared unconstitutional and banned from schools.

7. There is no direct relation to text in the case
“Brown vs. Board of education” but indirectly
segregation makes these case similar. A black
person is forced to go further to school then
white children, and in Tom’s case he has less
of an advantage to win the case because he
is black. In both cases the person doesn’t get
as good as treatment as other people
because of the color of their skin.

8. http://www.nps.gov/brvb/index.htm
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/349/294