1954

Marykate Hammonds, Hailee Morse, Carson Beiker

__Brown vs. Board of Education __

 **In the early 1950's, racial segregation was a big controvercial issue, espeshally in public schools. In 1954, a black school girl named Linda Brown that had to walk one mile through a railroad switchyard to get to her black elementry school. Even though there was a white's only school right down the road. It was unfair and cruel. Her dad decided to sue to get permission for his daughter to attend an all white school.** 

 **The trail was held in Topeaka Kansas ( where the black girl had lived).**  **The NAACP** **argued that** **segragated schools made the black kids think that there** **inferior to whites and they dont deserve what the whites have. The first court date for this case was June 25- 26, 1951. The desicion was not reached until 1954!** **This case overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson desicion of 1896, which allowed state** **sponcered segregation. This case also ended legal segragation of schools.**

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