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The Decision Of The Fourteenth Amendment On The Color Of Their Skin Was Unconstitutional And It Damaged Children

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having children attend school based on the color of their skin was unconstitutional and it damaged children, especially African American children. The Court concluded that it was in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to keep individuals separate based on the color of their skin. The decision in Brown was one of extreme importance and significance that could have represented a new start in the Supreme Court regarding civil rights cases. However, that was not the case, after Brown II the Supreme Court refused to hear a case that was on appeal: Naim v. Naim, Mr. Naim and Mrs. Naim one were white and the other was Chinese. The two individuals were residents of Virginia, where it was illegal for a white person to marry a person who was not white. The couple traveled to North Carolina to get married. After a while Mrs. Naim decided that the marriage wasn’t going to work so she sued her husband for an annulment claiming that their marriage was not valid because of the law in Virginia. Mr. Naim appealed to the Supreme Court and as the court was breaking down the segregation system they chose not to hear the case. “Naim v. Naim was an embarrassment only because it was out of the question, in 1955, that the Court upheld the constitutionality of a law prohibiting interracial marriage yet the constitutional object” . This again emphasizes the weight and importance of the framing of the Fourteenth Amendment. The framers chose the option that meant the Constitution could be

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