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 desegregate 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 ....) ** I was not successful, I tried very hard to go to a white school, I went all the way to the supreme court. I learned that it was very difficult for black students to get into a white school.
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 * = **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.** ||  ||=   ||

** 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 -Sued for segregated elementary schools and psychological effects of segregation of children. -Case went to supreme court -Wold have been almost impossible without NAACP -Supreme Court unanimously rules that school segregation was unlawful. -Multiple cases (5)

** THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration) (check [|Link 1] )** -School segregation denied blacks of their 14th amendment rights -Had harmful effects on black children -In Plessy vs. Ferguson the constitution had been misinterpreted -14th amendment didn't specify whether or not the states could control segregation.

** THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS (for segregation) (check [|Link 1] )** -Constitution didn't require schools to be integrated -States should be able to what they want -Segregation wasn't harmful -It would be difficult for blacks to compete with whites

** 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? In 1953 justice Vinson died and was replaced by Earl Warren. After Warren joined the court he pushed for desegregation and for Plessy vs. Ferguson to be overturned.

** THE COURT DECISION (in your own words) (check** [|**Link 1**] **and Link 2)** What did the Supreme Court decide in the landmark decision? Segregation is schools is harmful to African American children and school segregation is unlawful.

**ENFORCING THE DECISION (discuss "with all deliberate speed) (Check [|Link 1] ** [|Video]) What was the Court's statement about the enforcement of the decision? What happened to the enforcement? The court said that desegregation mus happen with "all deliberate speed". There was little to no enforcement, due to this many southern schools resisted desegregation.

**THE IMPACT and LEGACY** **(Check** [|**Link 1**] **)** What is the overall importance and legacy of //Brown v. Board//? In a time when school segregation was the norm Brown brought equality to African Americans who were in very poor schools.