Civil Rights Movement: Brown v. Board of Education

There were many great moments in the civil rights movement, but none stands out more than the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. That case truly addressed the horrors of segregation and gave a measure of equality to black school children who wanted to be able to attend school with their white counterparts. Occurring in 1954, the Brown case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where school segregation was determined to be against the United States Constitution (Patterson, 2001; Valadez, 2000). The decision was unanimous, which gave a lot of insight into the times and how they were changing to better address what was taking place in the hearts and minds of the people of the United States. Many things that have happened in the civil rights movement since the Brown case have occurred because people...
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