Cours Brown v. Board of Education

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1 ) Brown v. Board of Education

In 1951, Linda Brown is a black student living in Topeka, Kansas who is denied enrollment in a white school nearby his home and must be part of the remote black school of over a kilometer. The Kansas law allows but does not require, the cities of over 15 000 inhabitants to establish separate schools. The father of Linda Brown disputes the decision justice.La complaint is supported and in fact organized by the NAACP (National Association for the advancement of colored)

The federal court judge in first instance recognized that segregation is at the expense of black students.

An important pointFred Vinson, a judge of the Supreme Court dies and Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren to replace him. He wants desegregation, bringing the number of its followers believe to five, the majority of the Court. Immediately showing its influence on the court, he managed to convince his colleagues to support it.

The decision is adopted unanimously the nine judges. He states that segregation in education is unconstitutional and should be terminated, "the separate but equal doctrine adopted in Plessy v. Ferguson has no place in the field of education. "The legal basis for the decision is the fourteenth amendment. It guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the United States, and affirms the need to ensure equal protection of all those who are on its territory.

2) Loving v. Virginia

It is a supreme Court decision of the United States, returned on June 12th, 1967. Breaking a decision of the Supreme Court of Virginia, he declares, unanimously nine judges, unconstitutional the law of this State which forbade the marriages between black people and white.

The plaintiffs, Mildred Jeter, the black woman and Richard Perry Loving, the white man, were resident in Virginia. They had got married in June, 1958 in the nearby District of Columbia, having left Virginia to escape a law of this State forbidding the "inter-racial" marriages. In their return in Virginia, they were arrested at their home. They were one-year-old condemned persons of prison, with suspension of the judgment for twenty five years provided that they leave the State of Virginia

The Supreme Court verdict break in a unanimous decision of the nine judges, rejecting the argument of the Commonwealth of Virginia that a law prohibiting blacks as well as whites to marry a person of another "race", and providing identical sentences for black offenders as whites, could not be considered discriminatory. In its decision the court wrote: "Marriage is a" basic civil rights of man, "fundamental to our existence.

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