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Road to Brown
Title: Road to Brown
Category: History
Details: Words: 667 | Pages: 2.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Road to Brown
“The Road to Brown” was lead by a man named Charles Houston. Houston devoted his entire life to try and get equal treatment for blacks. But in order to begin the road to equality, a previous decision, Plessy v. Ferguson, which gave the “separate but equal” clause, had to be overturned. This was eventually accomplished in the Supreme Court decision of Brown v. the Board of Education. Brown v. the Board of Education was the …showed first 75 words of 667 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 667 total…in the school, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson.
The decision that separate was inherently unequal in the schools did not just come out of the blue. There were many court decisions and developments that led up to it, such as the desegregation of the Army and the case of Gaines v. Missouri. Brown v. the Board of Education not only ended segregation in the schools, it laid the groundwork for challenging every other aspect of segregation.
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