Over one hundred years ago a case went before the Supreme Court which would start a fifty-eight year battle to gain civil rights for blacks in the United States. In the pivotal case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the Constitution. Segregation, the court said, was not discrimination (Separate but Equal). In 1954, in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs. Earl Warren wrote the decision for the Court.
“Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law, for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the Negro group …Any language in contrary to this finding is rejected. We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place.......

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Title: The Fight For Equality
Approximate Word Count: 2244
Approximate Pages: 9 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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