I choose Brown vs. The Board of Education. This case was about a father, Oliver Brown who's daughter Linda Brown was denied access to/ into an elementary school at the time the law for equal rights was passed, and so a law of ' equal but separate' was put in place. This law stated that if racially separated facilities where equally equipped, then the Constitution's 14 th amendment was being upheld. I chose this because I believe it has played an important role in our current system and it has improved the education, self value and the ability to equal opportunities as whites and I believe that could've been a reason why it was put into law, despite the fact that it took a while to pass and even though it was passed not every facility had followed it at the time.

In his lawsuit, Brown claimed that schools for black children were not equal to the white schools, and that segregation violated the so-called “equal protection clause” of the 14th Amendment, which holds that no state can “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

This was upheld by being heard by the U.S District Court of Kansas where the ruling was granted that African Americans could share the same pubic spaces as whites because of the negative impact segregation had on African American children and that, in fact the education received was different depending on race.