Brown+v.+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?**

**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. - Topeka Kansas - It was a series of cases - All cases are about equal education List the major arguments of the plaintiffs > > ** MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS (for segregation) (check [|Link 1])** > List the major arguments of the Defendants. > ** THE CHANGE IN THE COURT (leading to a decision) (check** [|**Link 1**]**)** > What important change happened, and what was its impact? > The chief justice died and a new one was appointed. This allowed the right decision to be mae. > ** THE COURT DECISION (in your own words) (check** [|**Link 1**] **and Link 2)** > What did the Court decide? > They decided that it was wrong to have segregated schools because it was against the "due proccess" and "equal protection". > **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? > The court asked the states to end segregation "with all deliberate speed". Since this was so vague segregationalists organized and started to resist. > > **THE IMPACT and LEGACY** **(Check** [|**Link 1**]**)** > What is the overall importance and legacy of //Brown v. Board//? > It helped spread the freedom struggle and made it so that today all races and genders have equal opportunity.
 * BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES (more than one) (check video, [|Link 1], [|Link 2], [|Link 3])**
 * MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration) (check [|Link 1])**
 * - In //Plessy v. Ferguson,// the Supreme Court had misinterpreted the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Equal protection of the laws did not allow for racial segregation.
 * - The Fourteenth Amendment allowed the government to prohibit any discriminatory state action based on race, including segregation in public schools.
 * - The Fourteenth Amendment did not specify whether the states would be allowed to establish segregated education.
 * - Psychological testing demonstrated the harmful effects of segregation on the minds of African American children.
 * - The Constitution never said that black and white schools had to be equal.
 * - Segregation was not harmful to black people.
 * - Whites were trying to make the schools equal, but because African Americans were still living with some effects of slavery it wil take a while for them to catch up to the whites.