Fighting For Equality: Brown v. Board of Education
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court accordingly ruled that segregrated schools "are innately unequal." The court deciphered that even if seperate schools for blacks and whites had equally somatic facilities, there could be no true equality as long as segregation itself existed. The court wrote "To seperate black children solely because of their race generates a feeling of secondary as to their caste in the community that may feign their hearts and minds in way very the likely over to be undone."

The Brown V. Board of Education ruling inflamed many Southern whites who did not believe blacks earned the same education as whites did'n want their children accompaning schools with blacks. Southern governors announced they would not obey by the court's ruling, and Whites Citizen's Councils were arranged to adversed school integration.

The Brown decision gave great hope to blacks and were fervent for expanded rights in others areas as well.