2007-03-01 10:08:44 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
A landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court which explicitly outlawed racial segregation of public education facilities (legal establishment of separate government-run schools for blacks and whites), ruling so on the grounds that the doctrine of "separate but equal" public education could never truly provide black Americans with facilities of the same standards available to white Americans.
2007-03-01 10:43:46 · answer #1 · answered by axelrose 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was about segregation. It helped to launch the Civil Rights movement. Actually, to be honest, there were five cases which were placed under that because they were about the same thing. Oliver Brown went against Kansas because there they had a state law which allowed segregation. Several black plantiffs (Oliver Brown being one of them) attempted to enroll their children into white schools and they were denied. They filed a case and it went all the way to Supreme Court, which ruled in his favor and, like earlier stated, helped the Civil Rights movement.
2007-03-01 10:20:42 · answer #2 · answered by Laurel W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black people wanted their kids to go to the near by white school, but they had to send their kids far away to a black school. They got together and filed a lawsuit against the board of education to integrate the schools. This happened in Topeka.
It ended in the ruling that the Plessy v. Ferguson idea of "Seperate but equal" wasn't valid.
That's what I know off the top of my head. Here's more
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_vs._board_of_education
2007-03-01 10:15:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
brown sued the board of ed. in topeka kansas because his daughter had to attend the all black school which was severly inadequate compared to the white school...he sued for his daughter to go to the better school...kansas' argument was that the schools were equal, but the court found that they weren't and forced the integration of public schools...
2007-03-01 10:16:10 · answer #4 · answered by techteach03 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You should really read up on this yourself. It is a fascinating part of US and segregationist history. Not too hard to find out. You might try googling it rather than asking on a forum.
2007-03-01 10:14:31 · answer #5 · answered by rb_cubed 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋