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This cartoon is showing how the Supreme Court dropped a bomb that ended segregation in schools and ruled "separate but equal" to be unconstitutional. The "bomb" refers to the unanimous ruling on ending segregation in schooling.

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How it influenced the Civil Rights Movement

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How it influenced the Civil Rights Movement

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This case was a huge success for the Civil Rights movement and pushed everyone to fight harder for equality. It was so big that it had an impact on every other Civil Rights group. It showed that change was possible and they shouldn't back down.

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-The Civil Rights Act of 1866: This was used to help prove that by not allowing Linda Brown to attend a white school, it was violating the law.
-14th Amendment: This granted citizenship to all and "equal protection of the law". This too showed how Linda Brown was being denied her rights.
-Plessy V. Ferguson: This was a court case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine. It stemmed from an incident where Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks. This was used in Brown V. Board of Education by saying that schooling was not equal.

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Legal action was the strategy used here. Oliver Brown sued the Board of Education for discriminating against his daughter. He argued that it violated the 14th amendment.

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This granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US and guaranteed all citizens "equal protection of the laws". This was being violated because not allowing Linda to attend the white school was not "equality".

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-1866: The Civil Rights Act of 1866 is established to protect the civil rights of African-Americans
-1868: 14th Amendment was ratified; it grants the privilege of citizenship to African-Americans
-1896: Plessy v Ferguson case ended with "separate but equal"
-1909: NAACP is established to fight racial injustice through legal means
-1952: Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka case is made
-1954: US Supreme Court unanimously rules to overturn Plessy V. Ferguson and said that racial segregation of public schools is a violation of the 14th

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was made to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equal rights. They challenged Topeka Kansas's Board of Education.

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He was the Chief Justice during the time of Brown V. Board of Education. He lived from 1891-1974. Before Chief Justice, he was the governor of California.
https://www.history.com/topics/us-politics/earl-warren

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When his daughter, Linda Brown, was denied at schools in Kansas, he decided to sue the Board of Education. He was recruited to be part of the Topeka NAACP legal action to desegregate schools. At this time, he was a welder and studying to be a minister.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Brown_(American_activist)

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Linda Brown was a schoolgirl in 1954 and was the center of Brown V. Board of Education. She was denied access to white elementary schools in Topeka Kansas. She was only in third grade. She became an educator and Civil Rights Activist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Carol_Brown

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https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka
https://www.thoughtco.com/brown-v-board-of-education-timeline-45459
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fourteenth-amendment
https://www.ncpedia.org/civil-rights-movement/brown-v-board-of-education

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This was a Supreme Court case in which justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. When Linda Brown was denied entrance into elementary white schools, her father, Oliver Brown, took it to court. He argued that black schools were not as good as white schools and were indeed not equal. It violated the 14th Amendment.