Brown+vs.+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] Were you successful? What did your learn in the activity (just think about it ....)** **THE BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES **** (more than one) (check video, [|Link 1], [|Link 2] , [|Link 3] ) ** Make a bulleted list of the basic facts of the __cases__ brought to the Supreme Court **Topeka, Kansas vs. Board ** **Delaware vs. Board ** **Brown vs. Board of Education **   **THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF ****<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(for integration) (check [|Link 1] ) **<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">List the major arguments of the plaintiffs <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="color: #c81919; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS ****<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(for segregation) (check [|Link 1] ) **<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">List the major arguments of the Defendants <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="color: #c81919; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">THE CHANGE IN THE COURT ****<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (leading to a decision) (check **<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> [|**Link 1**] **)** <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What important change happened in the Supreme Court, and what was its impact? <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Earl Warren was proclaimed as the new chief justice. And he swayed the doubts and votes of the others.
 * = **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.** ||  ||=   ||
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A group of parents sued for not having the right of sending their children to an all white school
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They were denied of their request.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A group of parents felt that their children's all-black school was inferior in regards to the all white-school. they felt that their child's' school didn't provide the right learning facility
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Their case was held at the Delaware Court of Chancery, they were granted their wish, but the board of education appealed the decision.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The court consolidated these cases under one name: Oliver Brown.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On May 17, 1954 there was a unanimous vote of 9-0 that made the segregation of schools illegal.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Equal protection of the laws did not allow for racial segregation.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Fourteenth Amendment allowed the government to prohibit any discriminatory state action based on race, including segregation in public schools.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Fourteenth Amendment did not specify whether the states would be allowed to establish segregated education.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Psychological testing demonstrated the harmful effects of segregation on the minds of African American children.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Constitution did not require white and African American children to attend the same schools.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Social separation of blacks and whites was a regional custom; the states should be left free to regulate their own social affairs.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Segregation was not harmful to black people.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Whites were making a good faith effort to equalize the two educational systems. But because black children were still living with the effects of slavery, it would take some time before they were able to compete with white children in the same classroom.

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="color: #c81919; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">THE COURT DECISION ****<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(in your own words) (check **<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> [|**Link 1**] **and Link 2)** <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What did the Supreme Court decide in the landmark decision? <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They didn't know if the framers of the 14th amendment intended for segregated school to be permit-able. And the statement of separate but equal referred to transportation and not education. Earl said that we should focus on the present issues and not the past. He also said that education was the most vital function of local government and segregation deprived African-Americans of that function.

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="color: #c81919; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ENFORCING THE DECISION ****<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(discuss "with all deliberate speed") (Check [|Link 1] ) **<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What was the Court's statement about the enforcement of the decision? What happened to the enforcement? <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">U.S, army troops were sent down to the south to enforce the segregation of schools.

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="color: #c81919; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">THE IMPACT and LEGACY ** **<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Check **<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> [|**Link 1**] **)** <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What is the overall importance and legacy of //Brown v. Board//? <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The movement has come to include racial and ethnic minorities, women, people with disabilities, and other groups, all of which finally speaking out of their wrong-treating.