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 desgregate 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 successful. I learned how hard it was to be an African American who wanted a good education. If you stuck to it, you could prevail. Make a bulleted list of the basic facts of the __cases__ brought to the Supreme Court · Parents wanted to send their kids to good schools **THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF ****(for integration) (check [|Link 1] ) ** List the major arguments of the plaintiffs 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. <span style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1d1c14; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The Fourteenth Amendment did not specify whether the states would be allowed to establish segregated education. <span style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1d1c14; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Psychological testing demonstrated the harmful effects of segregation on the minds of African American children. <span style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> List the major arguments of the Defendants
 * <span style="color: #c81919; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">THE BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> (more than one) (check video, [|Link 1], [|Link 2] , [|Link 3] ) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">
 * <span style="color: #c81919; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(for segregation) (check [|Link 1] ) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">

<span style="color: #1d1c14; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1d1c14; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The Constitution did not require white and African American children to attend the same schools. <span style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1d1c14; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Social separation of blacks and whites was a regional custom; the states should be left free to regulate their own social affairs. <span style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1d1c14; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Segregation was not harmful to black people. <span style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1d1c14; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Whites were making a good faith effort to equalize the two educational systems. But because black children were still living with the effects of slavery, it would take some time before they were able to compete with white children in the same classroom. <span style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> What important change happened in the Supreme Court, and what was its impact? One of the Chief Justices on the Supreme Court died and Eisenhower appointed a new justice, Earl Warren. He unanimously denied the case, changing the course of American History. <span style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> What did the Supreme Court decide in the landmark decision? They said that segregated schools were unfair and that this case should be allowed. <span style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> What was the Court's statement about the enforcement of the decision? What happened to the enforcement? They said that all states should end segregation but they could take their time. Many people did not like this. <span style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> What is the overall importance and legacy of //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Brown v. Board //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">? <span style="background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">It created ideas of freedom for other minorities and people with disabilities.
 * <span style="color: #c81919; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">THE CHANGE IN THE COURT ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> (leading to a decision) (check **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> [|**Link 1**] **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">
 * <span style="color: #c81919; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">THE COURT DECISION ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(in your own words) (check **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> [|**Link 1**] **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">and Link 2) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">
 * <span style="color: #c81919; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">ENFORCING THE DECISION ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(discuss "with all deliberate speed) (Check [|Link 1] ) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">
 * <span style="color: #c81919; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">THE IMPACT and LEGACY ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">(Check **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> [|**Link 1**] **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">