Martin Wilson

American History

Question 1: Legal changes in the Minorities after WWII One of the most important legal changes that happened after the World War II was in the education sector. Following the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v Board of Education of Topeka Kansas, the segregation laws that had been set forth in Plessy v Fergusson 1896 case were abolished. Olson and Beal note that, “the case launched the most definitive assault on the Jim Crow segregation”. In Brown v Board of Education, the NAACP argued that discrimination was unconstitutional, as it breached the First, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. As a result, the court overturned the ruling in Plessy v Fergusson, hence paving way for desegregation in public schools.