Brown V. Board: its Impact Today through Fatima Alsawafy’s Lens

Brown V. Board of education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. In the 14th amendment, it states that all Americans are equal. Also, I think this case is important because one of the biggest effects of segregation are feeling less and mistaken. This case helped 17.9% of our modern African Americans to feel equal. Brown V. Board legal case was one of the most important legal cases in American history.

As it states in the 14th amendment “”No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”” in other words it granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War.

Someone’s skin color, a matter they’re born with, shouldn’t be the reason for whether they should be equalized or not. Which in living equal means getting to experience the same experiences as others. And last but not least, being parallel to each other gives us the same job opportunities, for example, being a police officer or a president.

Segregation had a major negative effect on colored people, while it was so unnecessary. The effects of segregation made colored children feel so uncomfortable and neglected at school. The government believed that if colored and white people get mixed, then it will result in the cause of a major disease, which was fabricated. Segregation gave colored people fewer opportunities, on the other hand, white people were able to attend anywhere that gave them the opportunities they needed.

Segregation affected about 14% of the African American population back then, now 17 % of America. African Americans play a big role in our modern American society. For example, Barak Obama served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, and he’s African American. Additionally, most of the top musicians are African Americans, for instance, Michael Jackson and Louis Daniel Armstrong. This confirms that skin color doesn’t make a person any less than the other, colored people are as good as white people.

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, case in which on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously (9–0) that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution because the Fourteenth Amendment states that “”all persons born or naturalized in the United States””. Segregation had a major negative side effect on African American society. If this case would’ve not been solved, then it would’ve affected 17% of our American society now.”

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