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Brown Vs Board

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Brown v. Board Case
Introduction
Brown v Board is a case whose ruling was made back in the year 1954. The justice
declared that racial segregation in the education institutions was illegal. Oliver Brown filed a
lawsuit in the supreme court against Topeka’s education board after his child got barred from
attending an all-white school. At the time, racial segregation was normal across both private
and public institutions and entities. The society was set in a manner that all individuals
became identified through skin color and societal affiliation. On May seventeenth in 1954,
the legal team representing Brown and four others who had filed the case won a landmark
ruling from the supreme court (Young, Dolph and Russo 341). Brown v Board created a
leeway for the civil rights movements after the supreme court made a unanimous ruling on
the illegality of racial segregation in education institutions.
The ruling set a doctrine that created the notion that the society accommodated
individuals that were separate though equal following the law. The verdict also established
that the fourteenth amendment provided for equal rights regardless of color. Karl Polanyi
found a discussion around the remarkable transformation in the economic systems of the
societies. The great transformation discussion will be compared against the impact Brown v
Board had on society. On the other hand, the Road to Serfdom will also be used to discuss the
notion of socialism as viewed during the Brown v Board case.

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Brown was an African American who initiated the proceedings for the Brown v Board
of education of Topeka. Oliver Brown’s daughter Linda got prevented from attending an all-
white school in a Kansas neighborhood. Instead, the all-white school expected Linda to take a
bus to a segregated black school farther away. The segregated black elementary school did
not offer any transportation services for its students. The whites school, however, was much
closer to Linda’s neighborhood. With twelve other black families that had suffered the same
fate, Brown filed a lawsuit seeking address against the board of education. The board of
education was on the receiving end and was the defense in the landmark ruling (López and
Burciaga 807).
Chief Justice Aaron announced the landmark ruling, which set the basis for the civil
rights struggles to follow after the case. In the case, Brown argued that the black schools were
not equal to the white schools as expected by the constitution’s fourteenth amendment. The
case was first heard at the District Court of Kansas, which agreed that public school
segregation harmed schooling children (Young, Dolph and Russo 342). However, they still
upheld that the doctrine of separate but equal dictates the conduct of education institutions.
The supreme court’s decision to listen to Brown and the other parents’ appeal was enough
victory for the civil rights movement. However, in May 1954, the doctrine of separate but
equal was disregarded. The plaintiffs had proved deprivation of equality rights due to racial
segregation across the United States.
The supreme court’s decision to award victory to Brown and his compatriots allowed
integration across all schools in the country. However, the court failed to provide a clear
direction on how the integration was to take place. Instead, the supreme court declared that
racial segregation in the education sector was illegal and unconstitutional. The ruling was met

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Surname 1 Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date of Submission Brown v. Board Case Introduction Brown v Board is a case whose ruling was made back in the year 1954. The justice declared that racial segregation in the education institutions was illegal. Oliver Brown filed a lawsuit in the supreme court against Topeka’s education board after his child got barred from attending an all-white school. At the time, racial segregation was normal across both private and public institutions and entities. The society was set in a manner that all individuals became identified through skin color and societal affiliation. On May seventeenth in 1954, the legal team representing Brown and four others who had filed the case won a landmark ruling from the supreme court (Young, Dolph and Russo 341). Brown v Board created a leeway for the civil rights movements after the supreme court made a unanimous ruling on the illegality of racial segregation in education institutions. The ruling set a doctrine that created the notion that the society accommodated individuals that were separate though equal following the law. The verdict also established that the fourteenth amendment provided for equal rights regardless of color. Karl Polanyi found a discussion around the remarkable transformation in the economic systems of the societies. The great transformation discussion will be compared against the impact Brown v Board had on society. On the other hand, the Road to Serfdom will also be used t ...
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