Brown+vs.+Board

//BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION//
 * What would break the back of Jim Crow America? What role did education play in the movement to desgregate America?**

There were segregated elementary schools in Topeka, Kansas. Segregated elementary schools, and the harmful psychological effects of segregation on African American children. Many African American parents thought this was wrong so they decided to challenge the school board in the case Brown v. Board. This case got all the way to the supreme court. African American parents and local activists from the NAACP challenged Topeka’s policy of segregated schooling. They filed their case in U.S. District Court in 1951.//Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas// gave its name to the collection of cases that ended segregation in public schools. In //Plessy v. Ferguson,// the Supreme Court had misinterpreted the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Equal protection of the laws did not allow for racial segregation. The Fourteenth Amendment allowed the government to prohibit any discriminatory state action based on race, including segregation in public schools. The Fourteenth Amendment did not specify whether the states would be allowed to establish segregated education. Psychological testing demonstrated the harmful effects of segregation on the minds of African American children.

