It’s that time of the month. It’s time to talk about the month that is called Black History Month. Even though we know about the most popular people in Black History: Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Jackie Robinson, and many more. We know about the most important events that happened, but what about the ones that we may not know about?
One of the things that we may not have learned, is that what started off the Civil Rights Movement is Brown v. Board of Education. This case was to establish the separate but equal from Plessy v. Ferguson case. In the early 1950s, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People were challenging the segregation laws. The case starts with Mr. Brown’s daughter being denied entrance to a school.
Mr. Brown went on to the file a lawsuit to say that school for black children was not like the schools for white children. He told them that the segregation equal protection clause, from the 14th Amendment, was not to deny any person. At the beginning of this case, the justices were completely divided on what to decide for the school segregation.
In the Final Decision, the governor of California, Earl Warren, stated that in the field of public education the doctrine of separate but equal has no place and that segregated schools are inherently unequal. The Court did agree that Mr. Brown was being deprived of equal protection.
The impact from the case, Brown v. Board, didn't get the schools desegregated on its own. This caused the Civil Rights Movement to be fueled in the United States.
