In honor of Ruth Bader Ginsberg this weeks topic is Education Law. Specifically, The decision of Brown v. Board of Education.

Oliver Brown, a Black Man, wanted to enroll his daughter in a neighborhood elementary school. The school refused to admit his daughter because she was black and was to be bussed to a segregated elementary school. Oliver Brown with twelve other families filed a class action law suit that went all the way to the Supreme court. On May 17, 1954 The Supreme Court in a 9 to 0 decision ruled in favor of the Browns. This overturned Plessy v. Ferguson ending segregation in public schools.

The end

What a great story.

Well it actually isn’t because laws don’t actually matter.

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