Brown+v.+Board+of+Education+(EW)

__A Step Towards Desegregation__

During the Civil Rights Movement an African American attorney named Thurgood Marshall took on several cases for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This individual helped open up many questions on segregation and its affect on society. In 1952 Marshall took up the Linda Brown case, a combination of several cases with the same issue: should the "separate but equal" clause established in the //Plessy v. Ferguson// be applied to the education system? The case was brought up to the Supreme Court where Chief Justice Earl Warren ruled in favor of the plaintiffs. This was a major victory for the NAACP because it proved that the "separate but equal" policy could be rejected by the government; it also led to the overturning of several laws requiring segregation in other public places. Many Southern members of congress opposed the ruling and ultimately rejected it. It wasn't until 1969 before the court desegregated all school systems for good.