Abstract
At the beginning of the 1950's, in the Southern states, fewer than 5% of the prospected black voters were allowed to vote. Shrewd Southern politicians set up new means of perpetuating the black's powerlessness. Ever since it's founding in 1909 as a voluntary interracial organization, the NAACP recognized the raging legal war against the consequences of segregation and racism. Its Legal Defense and Educational Fund was set up early in 1939. After WWII, a Baptist preacher, Thurgood Marshall, became a legendary figure of courage. He was a council for NAACP and he would later become in 1967 the 1st black Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The historical case, known as Brown VS. The Board of Education of Topecca (Kansas), came in front of the Supreme Court whose Chief Justice was Earl Warren. On 17 May 1954, the Courts opinion indicated that education represented a central experience in life and the critical question was: "Does segregation in schools, solely on the basis of race, deprived the children of the minority group of equal education opportunities?"
