Oliver L Brown Case Summary

On 03-21-2016, at approximately 9:25 am CSA Stewart observed Jalin D’Angelo Brown entering the search area with a grocery bag with a half of peanut butter and jelly sandwich with an unusual smell. Mr. Stewart asks Jalin Brown what was in the bag and Jalin replied, “It’s just a sandwich.” Upon a closer investigation of the sandwich, CSA Stewart realized that the sandwich was layered with an illegal substance. He took a closer look and noticed that it was “Marijuana called, “Loud,” which was over the interior of the bag. Jalin Brown was turned over to the Dean of Students (Mr. Barnes) and SRO Friday who also confirmed that the sandwich was layered with marijuana.

Notаbly absent from the opinion, as it was in Plessy, is any citаtion to a Supreme Court cаse that considered whether the prаctice of segregating schools was a violation of the Fourteenth Аmendment. It was an open question for the Court. The Court аdmitted that the precedent to which it cited involved discriminаtion between whites and blacks rаther thаn other rаces. However, the Court found no аppreciable difference here—"the decision is within the discretion of the state in regulating its public schools, and does not conflict with the Fourteenth Аmendment."

The South was completely reconstructed after the Civil War. The North had won the war, and now the south did not know what to do with the peace. Almost four million slaves were freed, politics were dominated by Republicans, transportation had been messed up due to the war, and the economy was in shambles. There are numerous significant moments and important matters of the time known as the reconstruction of the south, but there are four specific occurrences to be discussed in this paper. Those are The 13th Amendment, The Civil Rights Act of 1875, The Compromise of 1877, and The Plessy vs Ferguson case (1876).

To see how segregation was in the 1800s, the article "From Briggs v. Elliott to Brown v Bored of Education" by an unknown author explains how whites had more than blacks back then, trying to make it equal so that the blacks had as much as the whites. According to the article it states,"This also meant that if a state or a local school board built a school for white children, the state or school board was bound by the U.S. Constitution to build a school for black children. This racist policy is called "separate but equal. ' " Here the author is saying that if a school was built for the whites then it was an order for a school to be built for the blacks, even if they were separate and not in the same schools, they still had to be equal one way, because eduaction is important to childrens. Futhermore, the article states, "African American parents in South Carolina wanted their children to have the same services and schools with the same quality as the white children...

Brown vs Board of Education was important because it was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The first plaintiff was Oliver Brown, an African-American welder and assistant pastor. The case was brought against the Topeka Board of Education for not allowing his nine year old daughter, Linda, to attend Summer Elementary School, and all white school near their home. In 1954, there were four African-American schools and 18 white schools in Topeka.

Broad education. Its decision created an atmosphere of confidence among black families who were worrying about the future of their loved children in the public education sector. The chief justice of the United State Supreme Court Mr. Earl Warren was clear about why the court voted for terminating segregation in the public schools. He stated, “Segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race deprives children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities, even though the physical facilities and other ‘tangible’ factors may be equal. The ‘separate but equal’ doctrine adopted in Plessy v. Ferguson has no place in the field of public education.”

America is the so called “melting pot” of the world because it encompasses the diversity of ethnic backgrounds, religious beliefs, and traditional values. The American Dream is defined by equal rights, racial justice and the freedom to succeed through a variety of opportunities with the support of education as a imperative structure. Sadly, due to the mistreatment and isolation for many years, African Americans were prompted to fight for the unity of school systems. Many heroic leaders endlessly advocated to bring cultures together and create an integrated school system with the belief all children will go to school amongst each other no matter their skin color. In Brown v. Board of Education, the court’s decision ended with bringing together schools and integrating them to become equal.

This lead to the education being very different. (page 179 number 7) “Education The schools for white children and the schools for negro children shall be conducted separately. Florida). I think this is unfair and that it really deprived the colored people of a equal education and for the right to have the best education they could

Before this case, schools were segregated, but deemed “separate, but equal”. This

Hello, your honor. We are gathered here today because of the injustice between the whites and the African Americans in schools all across the Southern United States. We as a community seek equal opportunities between the races in schools and in everyday life. In the 14th amendment it states that, “No state shall make or enforce any laws which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens.” By segregating whites and blacks and having to make another law school for African Americans go against this amendment as there are not equal opportunities between them.

These decisions also made it so job discrimination in federally funded programs were not allowed. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court announced a resolution that changed the way students went to school. At the end of the Brown v. Board of Education case, the Supreme Court said that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" (Morrison 19). Chief Justice Earl Warren said, "We conclude that in the field of public education, the doctrine of separate but equal has no place" (Somervill

As a result of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, The United States legislators wrote the Southern Manifesto in 1956. They believed that the final result of Brown v. Board of Education, which stated that separate school facilities for black and white children were fundamentally unequal, was an abuse of the judicial power. The Southern Manifesto called for the exhaust of all the lawful things they can do in order to stop all the confusion that would come from school desegregation. The Manifesto also stated that the 10th Amendment of the US Constitution should limit the power of the Supreme Court when it comes to these types of issues. 2.

Lastly, “the defenders of segregation claimed that African-American students were living with the effects of slavery, and were not able to compete with the white children.” (Benoit, 10) The arguments against segregation

The 152-page decision came after a group of black parents had filed a lawsuit saying that the public schools in Boston were segregated and did not allow for their children to gain an equal education when in comparison to the majority white schools. Garrity’s bases for this ruling caused based on the unconstitutional

INTRODUCTION “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place.” -Chief Justice Earl Warren Separate But Equal, directed by George Stevens Jr, is an American made-for-television movie that is based on the landmark Brown v. Board of Directors case of the U.S. Supreme court which established that segregation of primary schools based on race, as dictated by the ‘Separate but Equal’ doctrine, was unconstitutional based on the reinterpretation of the 14th amendment and thus, put an end to state-sponsored segregation in the US. Aims and Objectives: