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This 5 page report discusses one of the most important Supreme Court decisions ever made regarding racial equality. When the Supreme Court determined that racially separate educational facilities were unequal and stressed equal educational opportunity, Americans had to rethink virtually every aspect of the assumptions they had made about where and with whom children would be educated instead of just how they were to be taught. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Brown v. Board of Education (Topeka, Kansas) in 1954 must truly be considered a "landmark" decision. When the Supreme Court determined that racially separate educational facilities were unequal and stressed
equal educational opportunity, Americans had to rethink virtually every aspect of the assumptions they had made about where and with whom children would be educated instead of just how
they were to be taught. The mandate of Brown v. Board of Education has served as a guiding force in issues related to equal education and the assurance that
minority students have the same measure of opportunity to become educated as any white child. Many of the hopes and dreams that began with Brown regarding equality among the many
races of the American population have not been met due to a far more deep-seated degree of racism in the American mindset than anybody truly wanted to admit. Despite
the fact that Brown v. Board of Education addressed how things should be done does not mean that the outcome has been one in which things are done that way.
It is important to understand that, ultimately, the proposals brought forth in the case were/are based on high democratic principles and have initiated a process of change that cannot be
abandoned. In the Short-Term Dougherty (2002) explains that the case was based on the events surrounding the attempts by several African-American parents in Topeka, Kansas, including Oliver Brown, tried
but were unsuccessful in enrolling their children in white schools (pp. 28). "On the parents behalf, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which had long
hoped to challenge segregation in schools, organized a class-action lawsuit to end public school segregation in Topeka" (pp. 28). That case was heard by the U.S. District Court of Kansas
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