How the Brown v. Board of Education Case Helped Minorities The Brown v. Board of Education Case was decided in 1954. The decision made was that it was unconstitutional to racially segregate in public schools, and that they should be racially mixed together in a school. A very brilliant black man, Thurgood Marshall, won the case. Before the case started he wrote a very intelligent legal brief about four states affected by segregation (Kansas, Delaware, Virginia, …showed first 75 words of 256 total…

…showed last 75 words of 256 total…other physical things, it was the abstract things. Students were being completely stripped of their education. The segregation of races was not only a law, it was obvious that it affected the children emotionally, which affected their ability to learn. After the decision in the Brown Case the black community now had something to work with something for their children, something to be proud of. They had finally did it. Desegregation was about to begin.