Brown v. Board of education
Thurgood Marshall was a man with strong social convictions for human rights. His teacher, Charles Hamilton Houston, implied this upon him. The case of Brown vs. the Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas was a case about black rights and would eventually become a landmark case in the early 1900s. The case was actually a mixture of four cases in one.Charles Houston was a black lawyer, the best there was. He felt blacks were being discriminated against due to a case known as Plessy vs. Ferguson. This case said segregation is legal, as long as facilities are equal. It also considered segregation not to be considered a form of discrimination. Houston believed this “dragon” had to be killed. To do this, he needed to destroy Plessy. The best way to do this, Houston believed, was in schools, as they affected nearly everyone in the United States. He took one of his best law students to South Carolina to document school conditions in the South. In one county under the “separate but equal” ruling, a black elementary school’s facilities would not provide books for black students. They used old books thrown away by the white schools. The county wouldn’t provide anything to the school but the teacher’s salary.
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Approximate Word count = 1316
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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