Brown v Board Moot Court

            There was a moot court a few weeks ago over the Brown v Board case concerning integration. 

One group was the Brown side and they were arguing for integration. This group used the legal 

argument of the Civil Rights Act saying that people should have equal treatment in public 

accommodations. They also said that separate but equal is unable to be used because it should be 

illegal, that black people are now citizens just like white people and should have equal everything 

including opportunities like education, and that public schools should be considered public 

accommodations and treated the same as them.

            The other group was the Board of Education and was arguing against integration in the 

schools. They used the arguments that putting blacks are citizens but would feel inferior and not as 

good if they were put into schools with whites, that blacks and whites may hurt each other because of 

anger from the past and keeping them separate is better for everybody’s safety, that blacks are not as 

educated as whites and would feel dumb if they were expected to come into the same school and 

perform at the same levels, the KKK would be furious and more active if integration happened, and 

finally that schools have always been separate so why integrate them now?

            The court in real life and in our moot court agreed and sided with the Brown side to integrate 

the public school system. There was good moral reasoning to side with the Board of Education side, 

yet the law required that integration must take place to be constitutional and follow the law correctly.