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.** ||   ||=   ||

**MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration) (check [|Link 1])** **MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS (for segregation) (check [|Link 1])** **ENFORCING THE DECISION (discuss "with all deliberate speed) (Check [|1] ****)**
 * BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES (more than one) (check video, [|Link 1], [|Link 2], [|Link 3])**
 * Wasn't the first case to challenge the segregation of schools
 * It was a combination of 5 cases from Delaware, Virginia, Kansas, Washington D.C, and South Carolina
 * Delaware- Belton vs Gebhart
 * Kansas- Brown vs Board of Education
 * South Carolina- Briggs vs Elliot
 * Washington D.C.- Bolling vs C. Melvin Sharpe
 * Virginia- Davis vs County School Board of Prince Edward County
 * NAACP assembled 13 parents of 20 students to bring the case to the courts
 * Case named after Oliver Brown
 * Segregated schools were ruled inconstitutional
 * Violated the 14th amendment
 * Harmful psychological effects because of the segregation
 * Equal protection laws did not allow for racial segregation
 * the constitution did not require African American children to attend the same schools
 * social seperation was a regional custom
 * segregation was not harmful to black people
 * whites were making good faith to equalize the educational system for all parties involved
 * THE CHANGE IN THE COURT (leading to a decision) (check** [|**Link 1**]**)**
 * In September 1953, Vinson died
 * President Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren as chief justice
 * He overturned Plessy, which changed the course of American History forever
 * THE COURT DECISION (in your own words) (check** [|**Link 1**] **and Link 2)**
 * Earl Warren wrote the courts decision
 * they decided to rule in favor of the Plaintiff because it was against the 14th amendment and the separeate but equal doctrine applied to transportation, not education
 * The court ruled that they end all segregation publice schools with all deliberate speed, but they never said how to end it, this gave resistance forces enough time to regroup and think of a plan


 * THE IMPACT and LEGACY** **(Check** [|**Link 1**]**)\**
 * the movement of this case has caused many other racial, gender, enthnicity and prejusice problems come to life
 * most schools are now united