Brown v. Board of Education

Brown v. the Board of Education was a groundbreaking case. Brown's case was a 14th amendment case about how schools were segregated and black schools and white schools weren't equal. The states had to make these schools equal because in the 14th amendment this is necessary. Brown had an argument based in law, but it can also have an economic base as well. Thinking in the way of how black people could contribute to society with the same education as whites. This makes the economy better and gives black people what they want. Everyone wants to be educated equally in this time. According to the board of education, blacks were so far behind whites in their education that there was no way they would catch up in time to be in the same schools. They also claimed that a stigma would become very prevalent. A stigma that black kids are not smart enough to be in the same classrooms. They said that black children would get bullied, resulting in poor self esteem. 

Education is one of the most important things in the world that a person should have. When someone would like to be educated I believe that we as a nation and just we as humans in general have a duty to show them that quality education that they deserve. People in this time needed to accept the fact that its not 1876 anymore. Even for the time of the Brown v. Board of education this was groundbreaking when it should have been commonplace. Everyone deserves to be given an education. Even if its limited education because of your financial situation or because of a mental situation. Just like everyone deserves to be free, everyone deserves to be smart as well.   

Personally, I believe that the side of Brown had the better argument and this was reflected in the decision that was made. The argument showed the great things that would come out of having more educated people in the world. It also showed that white people and black people, even though they were separate, they were never equal. 

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