EQ: What was the significance of the Brown vs. The Board of Education Supreme Court case?

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EQ What was the significance of the Brown vs.
The Board of Education Supreme Court case?
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What did a typical colored school look like?
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Compare that to a typical white school..
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See the difference?
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Who was Brown ?

• Linda Brown had to walk farther to go to a
  colored school when she passed a white school
  everyday.
• Her parents said separate is not equal because
  the schools were not equally equipped.

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The Decision A Landmark in American Justice

• In 1952 the Supreme Court decided to hear school
  desegregation cases from across the country. When
  the trial began, everyone in the courtroom knew
  that the future of race relations in America hung
  in the balance. The attorneys for both sides
  believed that law and morality supported their
  arguments.
• A victory by the plaintiffs would mean that the
  highest court in the land officially endorsed the
  ideal of equal opportunity, regardless of race.
  Defeat would mean that the Supreme Court
  continued to sanction a system of legal
  segregation based on the notion of racial
  inferiority.
• Smithsonian Institute 2009

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Who was Thurgood Marshall?

• The complete destruction of all enforced
  segregation is now in sight. . .We are going to
  insist on non-segregation in American public
  education from top to bottomfrom law school to
  kindergarten.
• Thurgood Marshall, 1950

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Integrated schools.