Thurgood Marshall, who gave the plaintiff’s argument in the trial of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka on May 17, 1954, argued that in primary education systems such as can be seen in elementary schools and high schools, segregation and inequality were as one, and in direct violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. He claims that “if segregation thus necessarily imports inequality, it makes no great difference whether we say that the Negro is wronged because he is segregated, or that he is wronged because he received unequal treatment." With this argument as his main cause for this case, he strongly supports this claim with major evidence, both factual as well as observational evidence. Marshall's first argument brings up the fact that all children are guaranteed twelve years of education by the state, but that it is also up to the state to enforce this too. He claims that the states have not done anything about it for a hundred years, and so for that matter the court doesn’t touch it. This argument is made because this rule has not been enforced, it has become commonplace and fallen short of seeing the proper attention that is needed. The court has not touched …show more content…
Black codes are laws passed to restrict African-American people as a whole in all forms and fashions. The Fourteenth Amendment was designed to deprive states of their ability to enact and enforce black codes or anything else like it. He points out that nobody has denied the resemblance of black codes in this law segregating children in schools on the sole basis of the color of their skin and their heritage. He says that this case can be decided purely on the fact that this set of laws can be considered black codes, and that the only way to provide any opposition to the plaintiff’s side would be to “find that for some reason Negroes are inferior to all other human