The Supreme court,race,and civil rights by abraham L. Davis, Barbara Luck Graham - Book Report/Review Example

The case of Brown v. Board of Education was presented in the Supreme Court of US in 1954 concerning serious incidents of segregation. The case determination was presented by Oliver Brown against Board of Education in one school in South Carolina. The case under the determination and jurisdictions of Justice Earl Warren was to address the complaints of Oliver Brown concerning denial of chances in various white schools where Brown sought admission for his daughter, Linda. The case also rose to address the issues of equality in public schools and transport sectors in order to limit the extent of suffocations on black Americans.

In the case there stood three antagonistic theories one being the Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment, the Fifth Amendment and the other being the segregation law (Davis and Graham 166). The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution explicitly forbids any kind of discrimination within the American boundary. The fourth Amendment upholds civil rights of individuals by protecting particular persons from any kind of abuse both physical and psychological. The Fourteenth Amendment provides for equal protection of all individuals rights irrespective of the individuals’ diversity.

The Fourteenth Amendment also advocates for equal accessibility to public resources by every individual in the American economy. The Amendment also recommends for right of ownership of property by each and every individual at will provided that law is protected. The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution backed the idea of school division among children of different races in the American boundaries (Davis and Graham 166). The Fifth Amendment tolerated the failure of certain public schools to admit the Negros and the African American children in schools dominated by white children.

Congruent to the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution was the segregation law. Segregation law was fabricated to address the increasing cases of prejudices extended to the blacks by the whites in America. The law of segregation proposed for separation of public facilities such as schools, hospitals, and transport systems on the basis of color difference (Davis and Graham 166). However, segregation law made it mandatory for equal funding of the segregated social facilities to ensure equal services and enjoyment to both the whites as well as the blacks.

Going by the intense desire for equality at all aspects of life by the civil activists in America, the court had to disregard the supremacy of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution and the concurrent segregation law to adore the latest Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. With the need to liquidate the incessant strife between the white and black Americans, the Fourteenth Amendment was very fundamental for the objectives of restoring peace. In his judgment, Justice Warren interpreted the idea of segregation as totally unconstitutional and unjustifiable in American society.

In his ruling concerning the case raised by Brown against the Board of Education in 1954, Justice Warren concluded that the issue of separate but equal law held no stance in the education system in the public domain (Davis and Graham 121). In his ruling in tandem with the Fourteenth Amendment, Justice Warren dictated that segregation in education system of America had detrimental effects on the development of the colored children in America. In order to defuse the existence of