Brown+VS.+Board+of+Education-+5.8.12


 * //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 ....) ** **//One of the choices in the activity that I made was to sue the school system, hoping that the schools would be made equal. It was a very long process, but in the end, it said that we had won the case.//**
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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 //** - Many cases had to do with making segregation illegal or making African American schools and white schools equal. **// //** - Other cases included people wanting to make jobs not segregated. **// //** - And other cases included wanting to make education more fair no matter what the color of your skin is. **//

** THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration) (check [|Link 1] )** List the major arguments of the plaintiffs **//- Equal protection no matter your race//** **//- The 14th Amendment allowed the gov. not to do any acts of racial discrimination//**
 * // - The 14th Amendment also didn't really say if the states were allowed to establish segregation laws //**

** THE **** MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS (for segregation) (check [|Link 1] )** List the major arguments of the Defendants //** - The Constitution never stated that white and African American children had to attend separate schools **// //** - States were allowed to establish their own laws of socializing between African Americans and whites **// //** - African Americans were not harmed by segregation **//

** 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? ===//** The Supreme Court decided to hear the Brown VS Board Case and they divided the nine justices. People believed it would be unconstitutional for the court to end segregation in the schools. The court also said it may be unenforceable. **//=== ** THE COURT DECISION (in your own words) (check** [|**Link 1**] **and Link 2)** What did the Supreme Court decide in the landmark decision? ===**// In the Landmark Decision, the Supreme Court decided that segregation would be broken in schools because there wasn't equal protection under the 14th amendment and the due process under the 15th amendment. //**=== **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's statement was,"Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." This vagueness about how to enforce the ruling gave segregationists the opportunity to organize resistance. **//=== **THE IMPACT and LEGACY** **(Check** [|**Link 1**] **)**  What is the overall importance and legacy of //Brown v. Board//?