Brown vs Board of Education

Brown is fighting against separate schools. They are debating the14th ammendment and challenging it under the equal protection clause. The schools are not separate and equal. The other races did not have as many opportunities in their schools. They had smaller buildings that did not fit all of the students and did not have enough books. The teachers were volunteers in the African American buildings and most of them did not teach the children everything they knew. This is because they did not want these children having the upper hand. These disadvantages continued to hurt the children

Board of Education: Stated in this time period they were accustomed to segregtion. Segregation is what worked for them and how it kept the peace. If the schools desegregated then many white children would not go to those schools. This in turn would have them lose southerner's support and money. This would negatively impact the economy. In 1896 there was a case Plessy v Ferguson, which caused a precedent of separate but equal. It should continue because it keeps the peace throughout the towns. They can not put all students together because then the white children can not get a proper education if they have to deal with the over population of the African American children. They stated you can not desegregate these children because it will impact white children negatively and influence their future.