A Social Revolution?: Brown v. Board of Education I

After several racial barriers were dropped post-WWII, minority groups, particularly in the North, became increasingly politicized. Congress, however, expressed no concern about such politicization. Relative to the administration, Eisenhower in eight years would never offer a word of support for desegregation. Thus civil rights attorneys began arguing against the separate but equal doctrine. The Sweatt decision (see earlier post) prompted a focus on public schools. The Court eventually decided to hear five public school cases simultaneously. The NAACP was significantly involved in all five cases.

The five cases comprising Brown v. Board of Education

In the 1952 term of the Court, a decision on separate but not equal facilities, Briggs v.… Read the rest