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brown vs board of ed

gh they had seemingly what was legally right on their side along with that the "NAACP provided these parents with legal help"(Patrick 48). This proved to be a substantial help to the Browns because the "NAACP legal counsel successfully argued a number of Supreme Court cases"(Patrick 48).The end result of the case was that "Separate but equal" was in actuality not equal at all and that at least one part of the 14th amendment which allowed " separate but equal" facilities , was overturned. Now that the case was done though there was much more to be done before the decision carried out in full. While trying to enforce this new decision there was much resistance encountered coming form the south. Events such as "Southern public officials encouraged resistance to the Supreme Court decision"(Baum 185 ) and the "Southern members of Congress"(Baum 48) signing a " Southern Manifesto that attacked the Brown decision"( Baum 48). These are just some examples of the south resistance to the Brown decision. Though there were more severe actions taken by some other southern states. " For example, Prince Edward county, Virginia, closed all of its public schools"(Patrick 49). This caused many problems between the Supreme Court and Virginia which took a long time to resolve. Though these are significant impacts which the decision had on the country there is one major impact that the result of this case brought out. That is " As a result of this ruling, other civil rights changes soon followed. The supreme Court declared that there could not be any segregated buses, hotels, restaurants, movie theaters, elevators, or other public places"(Goldish 40).In conclusion Brown Vs. Board of Education has greatly impacted this country like few other court cases have. Without this case civil rights as we know may not be the same and the case proves that no matter what the situation justice will eventually lead Americas laws back to its basic credo that "All men are cr...

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