Brown+vs+Board+of+Education

Brown vs Board

** SETTING THE STAGE ** - [|**Participate in The Road to Justice activity**] **Were you successful? What did your learn in the activity (just think about it....)** Yes I was successful and I learned that not all African Americans were willing to stop the segregation because the KKK intimidated them.

** 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 ** · African American parents challenging the Topeka school district · Roberts vs. city of Boston – didn’t allow African American kid enroll in Boston public schools 1849 · Kansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, South Carolina, and Virginia all had school racial segregation issues, and they all were named under “Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka”

** THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF **** (for integration) (check [|Link 1] ) ** ** List the major arguments of the plaintiffs ** -“The Supreme court had misinterpreted the protection clause of the 14th amendment.” -The 14th amendment allowed government to disallow any discrimination with race, including the segregated public schools. -The 14th amendment didn’t identify whether or not the states could have segregated education -Segregation had harmful effects on the African American kids.

** THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS **** (for segregation) (check [|Link 1] ) ** ** List the major arguments of the Defendants ** -The Constitution didn’t say whether or not black and white kids had to go to the same schools or not -The states should be able to do what they want with segregation because “the social separation of blacks and whites was a regional custom”. -Segregation wasn’t harmful to the African Americans -Whites were trying to make the education more equal, but because the “black children were still living with the effects of slavery, it would take time for them to be able to compete with white children in the same classroom.”

** THE CHANGE IN THE COURT **** (leading to a decision) (check ** [|**Link 1**] **)** ** What important change happened in the Supreme Court, and what was its impact? ** Justice Fred Vinson died, and Ike appointed Earl Warren as chief justice, and that changed the course of America. ** THE COURT DECISION **** (in your own words) (check ** [|**Link 1**] **and Link 2)** ** What did the Supreme Court decide in the landmark decision? ** They decided that separate schooling is unequal, and the “separate but equal” doesn’t apply to this situation, and the system of legal segregation unconstitutional. ** 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? **  They said that the states could only end segregation with “all but deliberate speed”. That enforcement was okay because many whites welcomed the Brown decision, but segregationists launched a militant campaign of defiance and resistance, and they felt that it was an assault on their way of life.  ** THE IMPACT and LEGACY ** ** (Check **  [|**Link 1**] **)**   The fight for actual equality in schools (not segregated schools) led to the bigger and broader fight for true equality, and desegregation. The fight also led to the fights for equality for women, other minorities, disabled people, and many other groups in the years to come.
 * What is the overall importance and legacy of //Brown v. Board//? **