Brown vs. Board Of Education As the Civil War ended and Slavery did, too, the question of African American’s freedom did not. African Americans had been given their freedom from slavery but not their freedom from segregation. In 1896 after the Plessy vs. Ferguson court case, the Supreme Court found that segregation, “separate but equal”, in public facilities was not against the Constitution. “Separate schools for blacks and whites became a basic rule in southern …showed first 75 words of 388 total…

…showed last 75 words of 388 total…the first black member of the Supreme Court. The victory did not come without fight. Many southerners fought to keep segregation in their states. The battle was long and hard, progress finally came. The victory changed the education, social, political, and all aspects of the structure of this nation. The court’s decision of Brown vs. Board of Education helped changed America forever. Source: www.digisys.net, Brown vs. Board of Education: An Interactive Experience.