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?**


 * SETTING THE STAGE** - **[|Participate in The Road to Justice activity]**

Make a bulleted list of the basic facts of the cases brought to the Supreme Court //Brown vs. Board:// //-there was school segregation only in middle schools in kansas// -//African American parents and activists in the NAACP challenged the segregation of schools// //-5 court cases on seperate but equal, schools were not equal// -//they filed the case in the US Discrict Court in 1951// -//they enged school segregation in Kansas//
 * BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES (more than one) (check video, [|Link 1], [|Link 2], [|Link 3])**

List the major arguments of the plaintiffs //-the Supreme Court misinterpretted the equal protection clause of the 14th Ammendment// -//the 14th Ammendment allowed the government to stop any discrimitory action in states' governments// -//the 14th Ammendment did not say whether or not segregation in schools was okay// -//psychological tests said that segregation had a negative effect on African American children//
 * MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration) (check [|Link 1])**

List the major arguments of the Defendants //-the Constitution did not require children of different races to go to the same schools// -//segregation was a social and regional costums, and the states should be in charge of these affairs// -//segregation was not harmful to blacks// -//whites were putting in effort to make every school equal, but blacks were still recovering from slavery so they wouldn't be as smart as whites//
 * MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS (for segregation) (check [|Link 1])**

What important change happened, and what was its impact? //In 1952 the Supreme Court agreed to hear Brown vs. Board. They knew it would be a toughy because philosophies and tempraments divided the justices. They all worried that if Brown won, integrating schools would be unenforceable. One justice, Vinson, did not think the court had the power to make this decision. When he died in 1953, Dwight E. Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren as chief justice. His leadership that lead to the overturning of Plessy was a big turning point in history.//
 * THE CHANGE IN THE COURT (leading to a decision) (check** [|**Link 1**]**)**

What did the Court decide? //Brown won. Earl Warren said that the 14th Ammendment referred to transportation and not schools. Decision was unanimous. He also said that education was very important and that segregation deprived blacks of equal protection under the law and due process. This declared legal segregation unconstitutional.//
 * THE COURT DECISION (in your own words) (check** [|**Link 1**] **and Link 2)**

**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 said that all states should end segregation "with all delibrate speed." This made it unclear when states should fully end segregation. This gave segregationalists a chance to organize resistance.// What is the overall importance and legacy of //Brown v. Board//? //The African American freedom struggle spread over the country. It sets the stage for the whole Civil Rights Movement. 50 years after the case the movement includes women, racial and ethnic groups, and disabled people who want equal opputunity.//
 * THE IMPACT and LEGACY** **(Check** [|**Link 1**]**)**