Brown vs Board of Education Case

Board of Education of Topeka, Gebhart vs. Ethel, and Bolling vs. Sharpe. Though the cases said seemed different, they had a similarity in that segregation in schools was to be banned. At the start of the 12th century, black people were arrested for just sitting on the “white only” part of the train. Their aim was to alter the existing laws and ban segregation in the education sector. After submitting the case to a three panel judge at the United States District Court, the judges ruled in favor of the school board (Kluger & Richard). Linda Brown who was a young African American pupil suffered a lot as she had to walk a mile to school each day even though other elementary all white school were much closer.

Her father Reverend Oliver Brown sought help in the NAACP to sue the Topeka Board of Education to ensure they offered equal treatment to all there student regardless of the race they came from. The fight began in the summer 1951 in the United States district court for the district of Kansas. This led to the black student sorting their admission to the white schools (Allen). United States Constitution: Fourteenth Amendment - “Rights Guaranteed Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection”: o Section. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws (Kruger & Richard).