Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)
Background and Details
African American children were not admitted to public schooling where white children attended. Legislation requiring segregation of races, but have seperate but equal opportunites, was viewed as unfair towards blacks. The facilities, and treatment of blacks was inferior to those in which whites had. For example; salaries, restrooms, resturants, and more, but in this case, schools and education. This inferiority took a toll on young black childrens mental interpretation, they viewed whites as better than them, and considered themselves inferior.
Decision
9 votes for Brown, 0 against. The Equal Protection Clause, stateing that blacks and whites must be seperate but equal, was declared to be unequal. Racial seperation in the case of public schooling is prohibited.
Precedent
Public schools cannot be segregated and must allow all races.
Reinactment of the "doll test." Originally tested by Kenneth Clark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG7U1QsUd1g
African American children were not admitted to public schooling where white children attended. Legislation requiring segregation of races, but have seperate but equal opportunites, was viewed as unfair towards blacks. The facilities, and treatment of blacks was inferior to those in which whites had. For example; salaries, restrooms, resturants, and more, but in this case, schools and education. This inferiority took a toll on young black childrens mental interpretation, they viewed whites as better than them, and considered themselves inferior.
Decision
9 votes for Brown, 0 against. The Equal Protection Clause, stateing that blacks and whites must be seperate but equal, was declared to be unequal. Racial seperation in the case of public schooling is prohibited.
Precedent
Public schools cannot be segregated and must allow all races.
Reinactment of the "doll test." Originally tested by Kenneth Clark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG7U1QsUd1g