Brown vs the Board of Education

Brown vs. The Board of Education

            The book “To Kill a Mocking Bird” was written after the brown vs. the board of education of Topeka, but the setting took place before it.   It showed that every race and color needed to be given the opportunity to get a proper education. Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka also stopped the segregation in schools. Brown vs. Board was a civil rights case about how African American students should have the same equal opportunity to get an education as white students. This was the biggest turning point in the development of our country. Before this black people couldn’t ride the same bus as whites, and the ones that they could they had to sit in the back. They also could not drink from the same water fountains as white people, or eat at the same restaurants as white people. The Brown vs. Board showed how people thought black folks were illiterate and couldn’t be thought how to do things like read and write. Brown vs. Board helped change that and they also proved that they could learn better than white people. In the book they degrade black people because the white people think that they are not smart. This is shown when they are talking about Atticus and his case of the girl being raped by Mr. Tom Robinson. The author in “To Kill a Mocking Bird” was trying to show that the segregation was wrong, and she did get her point across.