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A 5 page essay that examines the significance of the Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education and discusses the precedents that were in effect at the time of that ruling as well as the precedent set by that ruling. The background and a brief overview of the landmark case is presented and the effects of the ruling, both then and now, are examined. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Linda, and walked her the four blocks to the school. Unlike the other fathers, however, he emerged from the school not alone but with his young charge still in
tow. It was a typical fall day at a typical elementary school in Topeka, Kansas, a typical elementary not unlike hundreds other scattered across the United States. A
typical white elementary school where the principal had quickly ushered Oliver Brown and his daughter in the direction of the bus stop that carried students to a school across town.
The year was 1952 and Linda Brown, all of seven years old, was black. Forty years later, at a lecture in honor of Black History Month at a South
Carolina university, Linda Brown Thompson recalled those seven blocks as the "bitter walk to the bus stop" (Caracci, 1999; PG). Bitter because she was forced to walk seven blocks
in order to ride a school bus five blocks across town when there was a school a mere four blocks from her home. Bitter because a ruling set down
almost fifty years before she was born stated that she had to, that this was the accepted "law of the land" (Caracci, 1999; PG). This ruling was passed in June
of 1892 in a case known as Plessy vs. Ferguson. In this case, a colored man known as Homer Plessy was arrested for seating himself in a East Louisiana
Railroad car that was designated as a "white" car. Plessy took his case to the Supreme Court and argued the fact that his denial of a seat in any
railroad car he chose violated his rights under both the Thirteenth and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (Cozzens, 1998; http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/post-civilwar/plessy.html). The court ruled that the Thirteenth
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