FIN 3100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: White Primaries, Equal Protection Clause, Wyeth
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The fourteenth amendment provides that all persons born or raised in the united states and subject to precedents are citizens of the united states and the state in which they reside. In early 1950, racial segregation in public schools was typical across america. Although all schools were supposed to be equal, most black schools were much lower compared to all white schools. There was a third-rate black girl named linda brown from topeka, kansas. She had to walk one mile through the railway line only to reach her school every black school. However, there was a whole white primary school only seven blocks from her home. When her father oliver brown tried to enroll linda in white primary school, the principal did not allow it. Mr. brown was then defeated and then went to the national society for the advancement of colored people, or.
