brownvboardofeducation



BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION


 * What would break the back of Jim Crow America? What role did education play in the movement to desegregate America?**

**Using the the links provided, analyze the landmark Supreme Court case //Brown v. Board of Education//. Cut and paste the information below into a new entry on your Unit 8 Online Notebook.** ||=   || **MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration) (check [|Link 1])**
 * BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES (more than one) (check video, [|Link 1], [|Link 2], [|Link 3])**
 * Slavery was never legally established in Kansas
 * School segregation was permitted by local option
 * In 1950 there was four schools for black children
 * Man idea was that segregation violates the 14th amendment.
 * court case not only about the children, it was trying to break down human tendencies to prejudge, discriminate against, and stereotype other people by their ethnic, religious, physical, or cultural characteristics.

**MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS (for segregation) (check [|Link 1])**
 * In //Plessy v. Ferguson,// the Supreme Court had misinterpreted the fourteenth amendment
 * Equal protection of law did not allow for racial segregation.
 * The Fourteenth Amendment allowed the government to prohibit any discriminatory state action.
 * There were harmful effects on the minds of African-American children


 * The constitution did not require white and African American children to go to the same school.
 * Social separation was a regional custom not a law.
 * Segregation wasn't harmful to African-Americans.
 * The white people were trying to equalize the two educational systems.
 * African- American children were still living the effects of slavery.
 * It would be a long time until they were equalized the educational systems.

THE COURT DECISION (in your own words) (check [|Link 1])**   **THE IMPACT and LEGACY** **(Check** [|**Link 1**]**)**
 * THE CHANGE IN THE COURT (leading to a decision) (check [|Link 1])**
 * The judges in the supreme court doubted their authority to end school segregation in the U.S.
 * In 1953 the chief justice died and the new chief overturned //the Plessy// verdict.
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 * The person who wrote the decision, Earl Warren, thought that the farmers of the fourteenth amendment were not intending to allow segregated public education.
 * The separate but equal doctrine was not made until 1896. It was supposed to involve transportation and not education.
 * Segregation deprived African Americans of equal protection and the due process under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment.
 * ENFORCING THE DECISION (discuss "with all deliberate speed") (Check [|Link 1] ****)**
 * As the result of the brown decision all legal segregation was deemed illegal.
 * The Supreme Court ordered the end of segregation "with all deliberate speed."
 * This gave segregationist time to form resistance.
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In the mid 1950's the U.S was divided over racial equality.The Brown decision was wanted to be enforced by the African-Americans in the United States.The struggle for African-American freedom was soon spread across the country. The once small battle for school desegregation evolved into a bigger campaign for social justice. Now this has included ethnic minorities, women, and other groups demanding equal opportunity.