Brown+vs.+Board-+HW

//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
 * BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES (more than one) (check video, [|Link 1], [|Link 2], [|Link 3])**


 * led by Charles H. Houston and Thurgood Marshall
 * 5 school districts were involved
 * naming the case Brown was a legal strategy, Brown was part of the NAACP, and alpahbetical
 * NAACP played a large part of the cases
 * the students wanted better conditions
 * more opportunities were wanted
 * blacks wanted admission to white schools
 * pushing for integration in schools

List the major arguments of the plaintiffs
 * MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration) (check [|Link 1])**
 * Segregation was contradicting the 14th amendment; more specifically the equal protection of the law
 * It was proven that segregation had a negative psychological effect on African American children. Also bad for a developing mind.
 * It was legal for the government to prohibit segregation, according to the 14th amendment.
 * The 14th amendment did not say if states could have segregation.
 * Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that schools are run by the states.

List the major arguments of the Defendants
 * MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS (for segregation) (check [|Link 1])**
 * Segregation is not unconstitutional. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that blacks and whites have to attend the same schools.
 * Segregation is not harmful to African Americans.
 * Whites were trying their hardest to make everything equal, but blacks were inferior in education. They are not up to par with white students.
 * Segregation was regional, and it is a state government issue. The federal government should not be involved.

What important change happened, and what was its impact? One of the justices died, and President Eisenhower appointed a new justice. This man, Earl Warren, would now be chief justice. With Warren leading the Supreme Court, Plessy vs Ferguson would be overturned.
 * THE CHANGE IN THE COURT (leading to a decision) (check** [|**Link 1**]**)**

What did the Court decide?
 * THE COURT DECISION (in your own words) (check** [|**Link 1**] **and Link 2)**

The Court decided that seperate but equal was not actually equal. They said that segregation violated African Americans rights to equal protection of the law, provided by the 14th amendment.

**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?

There was not much enforcement. While a majority of whites accepted integration, there were still many who did not like the idea. "With all deliberate speed".

**THE IMPACT and LEGACY** **(Check** [|**Link 1**]**)** What is the overall importance and legacy of //Brown v. Board//?

This was a stepping stone on the road to full equality, and a large part of the Civil Rights Movement. It is the legal spark for the Civil Rights Movement. Also, other ethnic groups who were looking for freedom and equal rights used this case as a model.