The civil right movement was the social movement established by the African-American aimed towards abolishing segregation and restoring their voting rights. This attempt was build upon the 14th Amendment which states equal right to all citizen of the united states. New organizations were set-up to oversee the affairs such as the NAACP, CORE, SNCC and lots more. The movement therefore addressed three most important sectors of discrimination: Right to vote, Education, and Social segregation. An issue arises in the Supreme Court on racial segregation in public schools. Black children were denied admission to public school mend for whites. The story of Oliver brown whom her daughter was denied admission to a white school blocks from her home rather than attending a black school couples of miles away from her home. Thus, Brown stood up and strived to eradicate this system of segregation between whites and black in schools. This specific issue was treated seriously and it led to what is known as
Brown v. Board of Education. The NAACP eagerly welcomes Brown into their team and seized the great opportunity to battle racial discrimination. These issues were brought up in the
Supreme Court. The NAACP argued that segregated schools were perceived by the black children seeing themselves inferior to whites; therefore, the school were simply unequal.
However, The Board of Education’s backup was that, segregated schools prepared black children for the racial discrimination they would face during their adulthood staged. Also the board listed out some great African- American such as George Carver, Frederick Douglass, and
Booker T. Washington who had overcome more than just segregated schools to achieved success. So they opposed the challenged sent forth on them that segregated schools were not harmful to black kids. Therefore, the court had hard times coming into conclusion on the decision. Thus, the precedent of Plessy v. Ferguson permitted the policy of separate but equal education systems for black and whites, and no court ruled against it yet. Thereby, the court ruled in favor of he
Board of education.
Though, Brown and the NAACP proceeded in their mission. They appealed to the Supreme
Court on October 1, 1951 to give a second thought. A lot of cases emerge on the matter of school segregation that join forces to convince the Supreme Court. Thereby Chief Justice Earl
Warren finally came into conclusion and nullifies the idea of separate but equal and grant all citizen of the united states equal rights regarded all their criticism.