Mock Trial: Brown v. Board of Education

This case is four cases, that are all very similar. The case comes out of Kansas and the issue is segregated schools. Many Southern states had a law making it illegal to educate slaves. Once that was illegal schools were made segregated by blacks and whites. It was a law that they must be separated. Brown has challenged this type of law, and said segregated schools violates his 14th amendment right.

Schools being separated is unethical. Ethically forcing these children to separate themselves will led them to be angry. Black and whites should be able to play, eat, and hang out together in school. When schools are not segregated they are forced to eat and be separated within the schools. There is nothing constitutional about segregation. We are not allowed to dispose distinctions on race.

African Americans are given the same as whites. Although they are separated, it must be like this to keep the South safe. Separate but equal is not broken and continues to work. The schools are based white and black based on housing. The zones are mostly white and mostly black. Blacks tend to house together, and whites tend to house together. Desegregation would cause fights and a distractions from learning. Segregation at public schools is not the only thing segregated. Why is this becoming an issue and not other things. Since the ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson we have always followed the court. It has set a precedent that has worked for over 50 years. We have been following and this has been working, so why change it. If the court finds it is unconstitutional, then the people of America will backlash. They will be angry at the people making the decision, therefore putting them in harm.