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We were talking about the principle of the thing. So we weren't talking about real hardships here.

For many young white Southerners, the court turned Jim Crow from a social fact. In Topeka, they walked a few blocks and caught a bus. Brown put a powerful proposition to the American people: that racial segregation was immoral and unconstitutional. With the Supreme Court under the influence of Chief Justice Earl. You know, we are not talking about having to walk miles because in South Carolina, the children walked ten miles. Board of Education was a major win for the civil rights movement and gave it momentum. So we aren't talking about a poor education. The facilities were built by the same person, so we're not talking about substandard facilities with leaky roofs and outhouses, like they were in the south. Overview: Students examine why and how Jackie Robinson fought for further integration after the Supreme Court's decision that racial segregation in public. The African American schools were good schools. Board of Education case marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement, and it has had a lasting impact on American society. You know, kids are very accepting of how they live.

And for the children, I don't think it was problematic. The neighborhood we lived in was an integrated neighborhood along first street, and every morning the African American children that lived along that stretch, that block or two, would head off in one direction, and the white children living next door would head off in another direction. CHERYL BROWN HENDERSON, The Brown Foundation: