African Americans today still face segregation that was thought to have ended many years ago. Brown v. Board of Education declared the decision to have separate schools for white and black students unconstitutional. While Brown v. Board of Education launches its case, let's see how it sets up the infrastructure to end racial segregation in all public spaces. Today, Brown v. Board of Education made changes to our education system and democracy, but failed to end racial segregation due to cases still visible today. Brown v. Board of Education remains to this day one of the most important cases that African Americans have brought to the surface for the good of the United States. Brown v. Board of Education not only focused on children and education, but also focused on how important equality is even when society claimed that African Americans were treated equal, when they were not. This was the case that opened the eyes of many Americans to the fact that the separate but equal strategy was actually illegal. In 1896, the Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that “separate” facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional. With the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Plessy was overturned along with separate but equal implementation. The Brown v. Board of Education case all started with African American children being denied admission to white schools. In a PBS article the author discusses how Oliver Brown filed a lawsuit against the Topeka Kansas school board. Alexander McBride states that “Brown v. Board of Education was brought against the school board of Topeka, Kansas, by representative-plaintiff Oliver Brown, parent of one of the children denied admission to the white schools in Topeka. Front... middle of document... March 17, 1954, the Supreme Court overturned the “separate but equal” argument implicit in Plessy v. Ferguson. The Brown Decision inspired many civil rights movements and marches in the 1950s and 1960s. It also opened the door for many great civil rights activists like Rosa Parks and MLK to continue fighting for equality for all, regardless of skin color. As the years passed, desegregation continued and improved many public school systems. In our recent cases of segregation, many people would argue for another Brown case. Black students today are slowly closing the achievement gap and receiving better job and career opportunities. Many would say that we as a society are still separate and unequal. Overall, the Brown decision teaches us that the fight for equality is never over. It teaches that as a society we must continue to safeguard our freedoms every day.