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Brown Vs Board Of Education

The civil rights movement in itself has been a struggle for the African-American race. This fight to obtain natural human rights has begun much longer than there have been court cases to fight them. It began when this group of people were treated as if they were objects and not the humans they truly were. They went through 400 years of oppression not receiving the basic rights any citizen in America should be entitled to. They were beaten, traded, used, and utterly disrespected in many fields. The main focus to keep them in this state of oppression though was the use of education. Ignorance is bliss, some would say, and this is how America oppressed its new visitors. They oppressed African-Americans first by trying to keep them from any knowledge that was out there in the world. After the African-Americans were freed they were then held down by another form of disrespect. They were not allowed to get the same form of education as those who were Caucasian. This is why the case of Brown vs. The Board of Education was so instrumental in America's progress toward truly freeing the minds and bodies of African Americans. All court cases leading up to and after the court case Brown vs. The Board of Education have been instrumental in the education of African-Americans and ensuring that they can enjoy this freedom without repercussion. ‘
There have been set backs in African-American's attempts to gain the rights that they deserve. One such set back is when the Civil Rights Bill of 1875 was declared unconstitutional in 1883. This set the promising future for African-Americans down a notch because they were not granted some constitutional rights that they were entitled to. Though this happened, African-Americans still progressed and tried to make progress in other issues in the judicial system. In 1896 there was another setback, which put African-Americans in the position that they would not receive the same treatment as Caucasians. This case was Plessy vs. Ferguson....

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