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Brown V. Board Of Education Case Analysis

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In 1964 the average percentage for a black male to get his high school diploma was 14.6% and a white males was 27.6%. In the 1900s most people did not get their high diploma. There were many factors to this: low education, segregation, slavery and racism. Most coloreds were working as slaves from the time they were old enough to and did not have time for education. The Supreme Court had made many decisions that impact education: Brown v. Board of Education, Dred Scott v. Stanford, and Plessy v. Ferguson.

The case of Brown v. Board of Education was a big step towards unsegregation of schools. This court case ended up being ruled that separate schools were unconstitutional. This case overruled the "separate but equal" precedent set. Segregation of schools was a violation of the 14th amendment. In fact the ruling of the case was unanimous that the separation of students because of race was an unfair experience for the different races with education(Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka). As well as the immediate unsegregation of schools this case made the US experience a whole new world. …show more content…

Stanford it was about unfairly keeping a slave that should have been free slaved. The ignorance to the freedom of slaves in certain states was key to this trial. Dred Scott was a slave that was kept in slavery even when he lived in a free state for a period of time. Even with this in mind the court ruled to Stanford. The guarantee that even though they were in a free state did not matter since Dred Scott was a slave and was owned by Stanford. The court said it was unconstitutional to take property from the slaveowner (Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sanford). As a result Dred Scott was kept as a slave and Stanford won the

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