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= Why was the American School Segregated and What Ended the Separation? =

//Linda Brown from Brown vs. Board of Education.//


 * Started with Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
 * // Louisiana Separate Car Act  //
 * // // Homer Adolf Plessy took a stand similar to Rosa Parks - Arrested  // //
 * // // // Supreme Court ruled against Plessy  // // //
 * // // // // Resulted in doctrine - Separate but equal  // // // //
 * // Education between 1900-1950  //
 * // // Race was separate, but not equal  // //
 * // // // Quality of education was poor  // // //
 * ////////Detrimental to emotional state of colored children////////
 * //////// Affected a colored child's motivation to learn ////////
 * ////////// Separation deprived minorities of the benefits in a white school //////////
 * //////// Resulted in slowed education of the Afro -american child ////////
 * // // Brown vs. Board of Education May  // //// //  1954  // //
 * //// // 8 year old Linda Brown walked over a mile to a black school when there was a white school right by her house  // ////
 * ////// // Parents sued Topeka school disctrict  // //////
 * //////// // Resulted in the end of the Separate but equal doctrine left over from Plessy v. Ferguson.  // ////////

__**Sources:**__ "Brown v. Board of Education." //Early Civil Rights Struggles://. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Sept. 2013. . N.p., n.d. Web. . "Plessy v. Ferguson." //Wikipedia //. Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Sept. 2013. Web. 17 Sept. 2013. . "The Vinson Court, 1946-1953." N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Sept. 2013. .