Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Mock Trial of Brown v. Board of Education

In class today we decided to conduct our third mock trial of the semester. For this mock trial we decided to decipher the strongly debated case of Brown v. Board of Education. The case was so important because it allowed for the desegregation of white and black schools in Topeka. In saying this, the case of Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned and the schools were combined. I decided to join the side of the parents who were fighting to place their kids in the nicer more educationally superior white schools. The thirteen parents who stood behind 20 black children were in the right to receive a proper education. Seeing as though the children were indicated as United States citizens they should be guaranteed education that is equal to that of a white child. They tried to create this with the Plessy trial but in turn the black schools were underfunded and in turn created a separation in the learning communities for blacks. The states  This wasn't right and needed to be fixed with the creation of one school.
In the end, the prosecution was right because they defeated the board and created equal schooling. Their arguments were stronger and more supported by the court. The judge also seemed to agree with their decisions. It was not only against the law but also unfair to the black race.

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