Summary:
Supreme Court case on Brown vs. the Board of Education. The desegregation of schools in the United States.
Assigned Topic: Brown vs. Board of Education
Subject: Civil rights: desegregation, Schools.
Date of Case: Argued on 12/08/1952
Re-argued on 12/07/1953
Decided on 5/17/1954
State of Origin: Kansas
Description of Case: Segregation of White and Negro children in public schools of a State that is only on the basis of race, pursuant to state laws permitting or requiring such segregation, denies to Negro children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal.
The Brown family moved to Topeka, Kansas and tried to enroll their daughter, Linda to an all Black school. The closes all Black school was far away and felt that this would impose a hardship on the family. Four similar cases in four states.....
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