Johnny Rocket Launch Pad-libertarian Rock N' Roll Experience

Ep 8, Brown v Board of Education, It Only Took Six Decades: The End of Government Approved Public Segregation.

Informações:

Synopsis

  Six decades after the U.S. Supreme Court gave federal sanction and approval to the “Separate but Equal” doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court decided government approved racial segregation was actually not consistent with the 14th Amendment and the concept of “equal protection under the law.” Oliver Brown was an African-American parent of an elementary school-aged daughter in Topeka, Kansas. Mr. Brown sued to allow his daughter into the all white schools in Topeka. His suit was one of many class-actions across America. It was a nationally coordinated effort, led by the NAACP, to overturn Plessy and desegregate public schools in the United States.   The former Republican governor of California, Earl Warren, the newly appointed Chief Justice, shepherded a 9-0 decision to overturn Plessy.