Brown+V.+Board+Of+Education

//BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION//
 * What would break the back of Jim Crow America? What role did education play in the movement to desgregate America?**

**SETTING THE STAGE** - **[|Participate in The Road to Justice activity]**
 * 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.** ||  ||=   ||
 * 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.** ||  ||=   ||

Make a bulleted list of the basic facts of the cases brought to the Supreme Court
 * BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES (more than one) (check video, [|Link 1], [|Link 2], [|3])**

case 1: **Place:** Topeka, Kansas
 * Grievance:** Segregated elementary schools, and the harmful psychological effects of segregation on African American children
 * Plaintiffs:** Oliver Brown and 13 other parents from Topeka
 * Decision:** A three-judge federal court ruled against the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs’ appeal reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

- a lot of these cases talked about how if colored boys went to white schools and visa versa they would face physocological effects.

- Later the court ruled that this was racial agression.

- lots of the cases violated the 14th amendment.

- Mostly cases were either having to do with a colored male or female breaking the rules. They rarely put a white in a bad position.

List the major arguments of the plaintiffs
 * MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration) (check [|Link 1])**

The 14th amendment had been misinterpreted. It says equal protection, therefore for all races.

The 14th amendment would prohibit any form of government for holding discriminatory schools.

The 14th amendment did not specifically state which states could establish descriminatory schools.

Black boys and girls were physicologically tested to see what the effects of descrimination had done to them.

List the major arguments of the Defendants
 * MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS (for segregation) (check [|Link 1])**

The Constitution never said that African Americans and Whites had to go the same schools.

Having descrimination was a regular custom that has been going on for years. We should let it be and leave the social affairs alone.

Segregation was not harmful to Blacks.

Since Blacks were still enslaved, it would take time to be able to participate with the white people.

What important change happened, and what was its impact?
 * THE CHANGE IN THE COURT (leading to a decision) (check** [|**Link 1**]**)**

After Vice President Vinson died, Dweight E. Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren as chief justice. Warren will later change the segregation rules and put an end to descrimination.

What did the Court decide?
 * THE COURT DECISION (in your own words) (check** [|**Link 1**] **and Link 2)**

Earl Warren had decided that now we must not dwell in the past. We used to have enslaved African Americans and treat them unfairly. This is the present, besides, we have more politics and other constant affairs going on. It violates the 14th amendment and the Constitution. Now black and white people would go to schools together, and there would be no descrimination anywhere.

**ENFORCING THE DECISION (discuss "with all deliberate speed) (Check [|Link 1] ** **)**  What was the Court's statement about the enforcement of the decision? What happened to the enforcement?

It was declared unconstitutional. Some justices agreed and others were about to call for military campaign. Eventually the justices agreed that segregation must end. Later there were many deadly riots that took place. Even the rise of the Confederate flag.

What is the overall importance and legacy of //Brown v. Board//?
 * THE IMPACT and LEGACY** **(Check** [|**Link 1**]**)**

Now years later we do not even think about racial segregation. We even have a black president. Our first one. BARACK OBAMA. Also, all the races get in harmony today. Segregation is over.