Brown+vs.+Board

//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?**

**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.** ||=   || Many of the people who started this case were parents (either African American or White). This case went to both the local Court and the Supreme Court. The Brown case was mostly in Topeka, Kansas, which is a town with segregated elementary schools. Many African American families moved to Topeka after the Civil war, because of freedom from slavery. Although there was only 8% of African Americans in the town, there were still segregated schools.
 * BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES (more than one) (check video, [|Link 1], [|Link 2], [|Link 3])**

The law did not allow racial segregation, like in the Plessy vs. Ferguson. The 14th Amendment was also about anti racial segregation, but no one payed attention to that. And psychological testing showed that segregation was harmful to African American children.
 * MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration) (check [|Link 1])**

There is no law that states that African Americans and white children should go to the same school. And it states that indiviual states should set up their own rules about schools. Finnaly the last argument was that segragation doesn't really hurt black people. And it would take the African Americans a while to get used to going to school, because they were still geting over the problems of slavery. Orginally the court felt that the constitution shouldn't be showing people how to run a school, when the constitution didn't even have anything about schools in it. And the court wasn't really sure that they should enforce segregation anyway. Then one of the justices died, and a new one came along and switched their ideas around. He led the idea of overturning the plessy case. Earl Warren said that the 14th amendment had to do with transportation, not with education. He also said that we should worry about the present and not the past, and that education was the most important part of the governement. And finnaly the african americans did not get equal protection of their rights. **ENFORCING THE DECISION (discuss "with all deliberate speed) (Check [|Link 1] ****)** The court said that the states could end segregation at their own pace. That allowed states to form resistance plans. In the 1950's there was segregation, which spread across the United States. Even if legal segregation is gone, discrimination is still around.
 * MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS (for segregation) (check [|Link 1])**
 * THE CHANGE IN THE COURT (leading to a decision) (check** [|**Link 1**]**)**
 * THE COURT DECISION (in your own words) (check** [|**Link 1**] **and Link 2)**
 * THE IMPACT and LEGACY** **(Check** [|**Link 1**]**)**

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