People would think racism and segregation would be over by now, but in 2016 one school

district in Mississippi is now just starting to desegregate their schools. The Supreme Court, on
May 17th 1954, has ordered Mississippi to accept African kids into their school and to
desegregate every public school there. Vanita Gupta, Principal Deputy, claims that being
segregated but equal, is still not equal. He believes that if the schools desegregate than they will
fully be equal. You would really think that some people would leave racism in 1954 but maybe
people really haven't changed their opinions in the past five decades, since the Brown vs Board
of Education Supreme Court Decision.
What is Brown vs Board of Education? According to the Library of Virginia, Brown vs
Board of Education was the name given to a group of five legal appeals that challenged the
separate but equal basis for racial segregation in public schools in Kansas, Virginia, Delaware,
South Carolina, and the District of Columbia.The appeals reached the Supreme Court about the
same time, and because they all dealt with the same issues, the Court heard arguments on them
together. Brown vs Board of Education was mainly about the struggle with African Americans
not being able to have the right to go to school with whites. This was also about the difference in
an all white school and an all African American school. .For an example the pay for the
teachers, the school supplies provided for the students and the school building in general(What
Was Brown vs Board of Education?).

Education before Brown vs Board of Education was the definition of not equal. Everything about
an all African school was different about an all white school, from the teachers getting paid,
to the school supplies,and to the school environment.For example, African American would get
hand-me-down books given to them after the white school had used them. Everything the

whites had and ruined was given to the all black schools, their school environment was old and
run down. African Americans lived in the poorest areas they can possibly live in with the worst
facilities in the state (Brown vs Board of Education (Kansas)).Although the African Americans did
come together in their newly formed free black communities to organize schools, to get the
students to participate .But only a few African Americans received any education at all before the
Reconstruction Era when public schools were opened The African American Struggle Through
the U.S Educational System (The African American Struggle Through the U.S Educational
System).By doing all of this on their own they came together and strengthened their schools
and their communities (Segregated America). But for the whites it was a whole different ball
game for them. They were living the lavish life while the Africans were struggling to get what
the whites did. And what was that might you say?A better education, of course! All white
schools were provided with the best education and the best supplies provided for them. For an
example an all African would be jammed into one room where an all white school would
have several classrooms for all the students to be spread out.

Do you ever think about what lead to Brown vs Board of Education?I think what led to this was
their were so many conflict about Africans getting the same privileges as Whites with education
that the Supreme Court had to come to a final decision , and so the process of getting schools to
desegregate started very slowly and ended very fast.
One important reason is this case action was filed against the Topeka, Kansas
school board by representative-plaintiff Oliver Brown, parent of one of the
children denied access to Topeka's white schools. Brown claimed that Topeka's
racial segregation violated the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause because the
city's black and white schools were not equal to each other and never could be.

The federal district court dismissed his claim, ruling that the segregated public
schools were "substantially" equal enough to be constitutional under the Plessy
doctrine. Brown appealed to the Supreme Court, which consolidated and then
reviewed all the school segregation actions together.Thurgood Marshall, who
would in 1967 be appointed the first black justice of the Court, was chief counsel
for the plaintiffs(Mcbride).
I think this case out of every other state was the most important because it lead to the final
Supreme Court Decision.

During this case many things happened to give reasons to the Court to desegregate schools. For
an example Warren, head of the Supreme Court , convinced the court that the, legal promotion
of social equality was the best decision and on May 17th 1954, the Supreme Court outlawed
segregation in school. This means that Warren explained to the court that desegregation and
social equality was the best way the stop this conflict between the whites and the africans.
Warrens decision gave judicial legitimacy to the civil rights movement here was the most
powerful judicial body in America (Trueman).

This impacted many people's lives.The outcome to this could've been bad and could of came out
good. What i mean by bad is that some states would go by separate is equal and would just
separate the students and call it equal. There were those in the south who were adamantly
against Warrens decision. In some states such as Mississippi, the decision gave an extra boost to
those racially more extreme than others. Racial moderates gave way to these extremists.
By having the good outcome i meant that blacks were allowed to get a better education , some
when off to college, some traveled , some did many things that they never would imagine them

doing.Some people were very upset about Warren's decision and some were very confused
everyone had different opinions to it. And i also feel like whites were more terrified than
anything. I feel like this because they were terrified that now that blacks can get properly
educated they were going to have more power than the whites. Zora Neale Hurston, believed
that African American children would do better in black-only schools for the very reasons given
above. The hostility of the desegregated schools to African American children, she felt, would
hold them back. I could see how this could give a big push to Africans , because their going
from living in the poorest schools/areas and given torn up books to read with stains all over them
to a nice brand new school and new supplies out the box. Personally that would affect me very
well , I know I would see myself doing a lot more better than where they had the Africans at
(Trueman).

You would think that everyone would move on from racism and want the best for each other. But
sometimes people don't change their opinions , and that's okay if the outcome is positive and a
success story. And to me Brown vs Board of Education is a success story to me. They fought for
their rights and education, and that's very important because education and learning is the key to
a lot.If we didn't have Brown vs Board of Education i feel like most of the important people in
our lives wouldn't be here and our world would be much different.