Brown v. Board of Education

Brown v. Board of Education

The ruling took effect on May 17 of 1954. The reason it took effect was that Linda Brown and some of her friends wanted to go to the all white school that was closer to their houses then the black school. It started as a local case and went all the way to the Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall was the lawyer for Linda’s family. This was one of the many times he battled the Supreme Court before working there. Justice Earl Warren agreed with Linda’s family. This over turned Plessey v Ferguson. This law made it where black and white children could go to the same school. Rather then separate schools witch was the case prier to this law. Before this law took effect the schools for African-American children were in delapited shape. They got really old hand-me-down books from the white schools. The schools for Caucasian kids were in great shape they got new books almost every year.