Thursday, April 05, 2007

LAD#30- Brown Vs. Board

In Ada Louis Sipuel vs. Board of Regents in 1948 and sweat vs. painter in 1950 the Supreme Court ruled that African American must be allowed to attend integrated law schools in Oklahoma and Texas. In Brown vs. Board of education of Topeka a 1954 case NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall challenged the doctrine of separate but equal form the Plessy vs Ferguson case of 1896. the court declared that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal. In 1955 the court ordered states to integrate “with all deliberate speed.”