Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
“Segregation
of children in the public schools solely on the basis of race denies to black
children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth
Amendment, even though the physical facilities and other may be equal.
Education in public schools is a right which must be made available to all on
equal terms.”
This
passage is explaining how segregation worked against the black children in
public schools. The children were supposed to be protected by the fourteen Amendment,
and some how it was perpetuated the opposite. Education is a right that
everyone especially children are entitled too and it must be provided and available
by the government.
I
chose this passage because I believe that even to this day segregation still
exist to a certain aspect. I do believe that in this case, they went against the
laws that were supposed to be guaranteed in the 14th amendment. The
black children were not being protected because they were being separated from
the whites, even though they tried to say they were being treated equal.
“Separate but equal” public schools were just an excuse to hide their true intentions
in continuously treating colored people unequal. I do not see how separating
people, like if they were sick with a virus is treating them equal. Colored
people did not have the same education, bathrooms, and benefits like the white
people did. I believe this is an important case because it shows how cruel the
colored people were being treated and how the government tried to hide their
true intentions by saying they were protect by the 14th amendment.
