Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education

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"This study will discuss the U.S. Supreme Court's opinion in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873 (1954) with regard to its impact on public education, as well as its effect on old laws and similar cases in other areas. This case will also be placed into its historical context, and the judicial decision handed down will be evaluated.

This school desegregation case is justifiably famous for ending segregation practices which had been prevalent in the South and other areas since the days of Reconstruction, during which the South saw the return of "white man's government" and the passage of state laws not unlike the "Black Codes" adopted right after the Civil War to "keep the Negro in his place." Under criminal penalties, these state laws required the segregation of the white and Negro races in public and semi-public places, including ... "

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