The incessant struggle for equal rights in education
In 1951, Oliver Brown attempted to register his daughter Linda in the all-white Sumner College in Topeka, Kansas. Linda Brown was turned away since she was Black. Oliver filed a legal action claiming that Black colleges weren’t equal to white institutions and went against the” equivalent security provision of the 14 th Modification The U.S. District Court agreed that public school partition had a “detrimental effect upon the colored youngsters and added to a sense of inability,” however let stand the “different however equal teaching preserved in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson has long been considered among the worst decisions ever made by the High court, though Principal Justice William Rehnquist showed he would have sustained it as late as 1952
The Brown claim was integrated with four various other institution desegregation situations and came before the High court as Brown v. Board of Education and learning in 1952 The chief attorney for the plaintiffs was Thurgood Marshall with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund The NAACP had benefited numerous years to bring this issue prior to the High court and currently had its opportunity.
The Court was split on how to rule, with Principal Justice Fred M. Vinson in …