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The Brown V. Board Story

Imagine every day having to walk three, whole miles through a railroad switchyard to your get to your all black school, when there was a public school only one block from your house. But you are not aloud to go to this school because your are an African American. I bet you would be pretty mad. Well, this is what third grader Linda Brown had to go through every day. Linda Brown and her family lived in Topeka, Kansas. In Kansas the law was that if a city had more than 15,000 people in there overall population then any public school in that city was aloud to be segregated. The city were Linda lived is a the state capital of Kansas, so as you can imagine it had many people in it. Linda's family, especaily her father Oliver Brown had something to say about it. In the pictures below you can see Linda Brown and the hard journey she had to take every day to school.

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Mr. Brown and the other parents asked the NAACP to help. The NAACP was eager to jump at the chance to challenge segregation in public schools. They filed law suits to the state courts. So did three other states. The state courts rejected theTopeka law suit because the plessy vs. Ferguson case made seperate but equal legal in the U.S. This whole story of Linda Brown started the famous case of brown v. board. Below you see a picture of oliver Brown, Linda Brown's father.

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The Brown V. Board of Education case went on for three years. It was first argued on December 9, 1952, reargued December 8, 1953 and then decided on May 17, 1954. This was a huge step for black America, but the decision also caused much anger and hatred towards blacks. The Little Rock Nine is a great example of this. These nine students ment a lot to everyone who was for equality and peace, but the white people who were against equality for blacks hated the integration of their schools. But just because blacks were in accepted in all public schools doesn't mean they were treated with respect in these schools. As you see in the picture down below, the Brown v. Board decision was not accepted by all.

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As you can see, the Brown v. Board decision has had a huge affect on the U. S. and all the people that were living in it. Overall this case accomplished desegregating public schools in the U.S. and leading the way for many other civil rights movements to come.