Sunday, April 24, 2011

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Brown represented a collection of cases, all tied together in that black children had been denied admission to segregated white public schools. This case brought up the previous decision of Plessy v. Furguson, questioned weather separate but equal was constitutional. The court decided unanimously in favor of Brown. Chief Justice Warren decided that segregating schools " has a tendency to retard the educational and mental development of negro children and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racially integrated school system". He concluded that separate but equal has no place in the field of education. I completely agree with the courts decision on this case. I believe everyone should have the equal right to a good education.
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