Brown vs. Board of Education

Realized emancipation occurred in 1865 with the 13th amendment (only four years after Kansas became a state), yet segregation was not made illegal until 1954, marking the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. The movement determined they would oppose racism in a mostly peaceful manner, very different from many of those that supported racism and segregation, such as the Klu Klux Klan. Segregation, the separation of races- blacks and other minorities not allowed on main floor of some theaters (mainly only allowed in balconies; even different entrances sometimes). Black and white water fountains, buses and bus depots, showers and other instances in the U.S. Army, restrooms, National Park utilities, swimming pools, juries and legislatures. There were devious ways to keep black people from voting in elections, like literacy tests and voting taxes (1952-1954 - Brown vs. Board of Education decided).

Oliver Brown’s daughter, Linda, Brown walked a mile and had to cross railroad tracks to school. There was 18 neighborhood schools for white children, but only 4 for black in 1950. In Kansas but NAACP worked to stop segregation and agreed to file a case; 13 parents signed up for the lawsuit. They agreed they would enroll their child to the closest white school during enrollment period. Once enrollment was denied, they used the denial for the case.

The ruling overturned Plessy v. Ferguson 1817 which originally allowed state-sponsored segregation Ruled that separate but equal was unconstitutional according to the 14th amendment, section 1 of the US Constitution 14th amendment created after Civil War as a response to rights of former slaves.