Brown v. Board of Education

In class, my group got assigned another court case called "Brown v. Board of Education" to do a mock trial on. We had to do the assignment in the perspective of Brown's side of the case. The anti-slavery side. In this case we each had to do different aspects of it. My task was to write about the overview of what was happening at the time of the case involving slavery specifically antislavery. 

Brown v. Board of Education is a case about a young girl required to go to an all black school that was far away from her home, instead of going to a white school that was very close to her house. The family of this girl was not happy with this and them, and lots of other black families gathered together and filed a lawsuit against the school systems in that county. They ended up winning the case on the argument from "Plessy v. Ferguson," that things should be "separate but equal". The court ended in a unanimous decision favoring the Brown family with a vote of 9-0. 

Here is my overview:

At this time, our anti-slavery activists have grown and have become a stronger voice due to all the racist instances our country has provided for us. We have made many advances in the past years some going back hundreds of years. The influence has spread to all aspects of life including music, jobs, relationships,  and how we treat people in everyday life. Within these aspects, we had important people that we could look up to in history. One very famous one being Joseph H. Rainey. Joseph H. Rainey was the first ever African American to be appointed in the House of Representatives. This was a huge deal to the abolitionists of America. Another one of these people being Thurgood Marshall. Marshall became a legal defense and was eventually elected to the Supreme Court. We have made our voice known to many people, some even as important as the President himself. A few years ago in 1946, President Harry S. Truman executed an order  that said a person of any race can participate in the armed forces. This was a huge step for our people and it has shown how much of an impact we can have if we stand up for what we believe in. 

Jim Crow laws have been around for some time now. They have been separating and discriminating blacks and whites for years and they have not stopped now. Jim Crow laws by definition are laws that enforced racial segregation specifically in the south. This was mainly for the Reconstruction era during the 1870s, but it was wrongly kept for many more years, and we are still dealing with the repercussions.

And now, in this court, I believe we can make a difference. I believe we can change the way society looks at races, so that we will not have to be separate, but yet see everyone as a person and all the same.