I disagree that the decision made by the Supreme Court in the Brown v. Board of Education was a positive development for African-Americans to a large extent.
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badion (student)
I disagree that the decision made by the Supreme Court in the Brown v. Board of Education was a positive development for African-Americans to a large extent.
The decision made by the Supreme Court was a positive development for African-Americans for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, the Brown Decision had resulted in a positive development for the Blacks in terms of social development and impacts. The Brown Decision was seen as very symbolic to the blacks. For the first time, the National Association for The Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) had won a case that struck at the heart of segregation. The Supreme Court, under the new leadership of Earl Warren, had shown it was sympathetic to the civil rights cause. The blacks thus see this as a real turning point in the civil rights struggle. As a result, black campaigners started to strongly believe that the Supreme Court would back legal challenges in other segregated areas of life too. This in turn, led to a notable increase in local activism groups, particularly by groups such as NAACP and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), who organised new voter registration campaigns and local protests. Hence, it is evident that many blacks began to believe that the Brown case was the beginning of the end of segregation. Therefore, the Brown decision was a positive development for African-Americans because it not only had shown that equality has started to spread within the society (as the Supreme Court recognised the importance of equality during the Cold War), the Brown decision also in turn boosted the blacks’ morals and encouraged them to strive even harder to fight for an equal society and improve their welfare statuses.
