Brown vs Board of Education

By shortmom1

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    U.S. Supreme court rules that as long as "seperate but equal" facilities was established for African Americans and Whites that the 14th Amendment was not violated

  • NAACP Is established

    Created by W.E.B. Du Bois to fight the radical injustice through legal means

  • NAACP takeover

    Thurgood Marshall takes over the legal team for the NAACP

  • Defense Fund

    The NAACP establishes a legal and educational defense fund

  • South Carolina

    NAACP attempted to take legal action against school in Clarendon County about the inferior conditions of African American schools

  • NAACP endorses Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshalls strategy is endorsed by the NAACP which includes tackling segregation in education

  • Washington DC

    John Philip Sousa Junior High School was opened and several African Americans positioned for the school to be an integrated school however, the request was denied

  • Kansas

    The NAACP in Kansas challenged the law about segregation in elementary schools

  • Delaware case petitioned

    Delaware case was petitioned to challenge the inadequate condition in African American schools in Clayton, De.

  • Delaware Case

    Several cases are petitioned about the deplorable conditions in African American schools in Clayton De

  • Virginia

    African American students staged a walk out in protest of the conditions of Robert Russa Moton High School

  • Conjoined cases

    School segregation cases are compiled together from Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington Dc

  • Chief Justice is replaced

    Unable to come to a unanimous decision by the end of the court term. Brown vs Board of education was tabled until the following term. In that time Chief Justice Fred Vinson died and was replaced by California governor Earl Warren.

  • Supreme Court ruling

    With a unanimous decision racial segregation in public schools was a violation of the 14th Amendment