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Criminal Justice System : Brown V. Board Of Education

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Deirdre Donohoe Professor Sysol Intro to Criminal Justice October 2, 2014 Events in History That Changed the American Criminal Justice System: Brown v. Board of Education There were countless events in history that changed the American criminal justice system. One of the most well known events in history was the Brown v. Board of Education case that took place in 1954. This was an important Supreme Court case because the court decided that laws separating white and black public schools were unconstitutional. Brown vs. board of education is considered to be one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century because it was unanimously voted that separating white and black public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the fourteenth amendment. This decision, however, didn’t fully desegregate all public schools until 1963. This was not a single case. There were five other lawsuits against school districts in the Virginia (Davis v. County School Board), District of Columbia (Bolling v. Sharpe), Delaware (Belton v. Gebhart), South Carolina (Briggs v. Elliott), and Kansas (Brown v. Board of Education). With the prodding of several tuned in parents, a few students started to stand up for themselves, one such being Barbara Rose Johns. In 1951, this strong-minded high school student from Farmville, Virginia organized a student based strike to protest poor school conditions. In the two-week protest, four hundred fifty black students from Moton High

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