B)+Brown+Vs.+Board-+5.4.10


 * //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.** ||

**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


 * Slavery never legally established in Kansas
 * School segregation was permitted by local option, only in elementary school
 * Oliver Brown and 13 other parents from Topeka complained to a three judged local court ruled against them so they were sent to the supreme court about the psychological effect on African American children in segregated schools
 * Buses were integrated but most of everything else such as restaurants and hotels were segregated but not by law
 * McKinley Burnett was the president of the NAACP petitioned the Topeka Board of Education to end slavery but had grown frustrated when the did not
 * He wrote a letter the NAACP asking for their help to file a lawsuit against the Board of Education

**MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF** **(for integration) (check [|Link 1] )** List the major arguments of the plaintiffs


 * Supreme court didn't interpret the 14 amendment like African Americans did on the part about protection
 * 14 amendment never specifically said if states could segregate schools
 * Psychological tests proved that segregation in school was harmful to the minds of African Americans
 * 14 amendment said government could chose to not allow discriminatory based on race

**MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS** **(for segregation) (check [|Link 1] )** List the major arguments of the Defendants


 * Separation of blacks and whites was a regional decision that the states where not part of
 * Constitution doesn't say that blacks and whites had to go to the same schools
 * Segregation didn't mess with the minds of black children

**THE CHANGE IN THE COURT** **(leading to a decision) (check** [|**Link 1**] **)** What important change happened, and what was its impact?

Supreme court decided to hear the case from Brown vs. Board of Education. There were many debates argued back and forth. Most justices doubted the constitutional power that the courts had to end segregation anyways and that if schools were integrated the rules wouldn't be forced. Chief Justice Fred Vinson died and Earl Warren was appointed by Dwight Eisenhower in 1953. He produced the unanimous decision to overturn the case. He and the civil rights attorneys said that the writers of the constitution didn't make it clear if segregated schools was part of the 14 amendment. What did the Court decide? The justices unanimously decided that Brown had won. They said that African Americans were deprived of equal protection guaranteed to everybody in the 14 amendment. They also said that blacks shouldn't be denied the right of education. Brown said the legal form of segregation was 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] )**

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

Most African Americans enforced the right of integrated schools but most other americans where slip in half about racial equality. Issues of segregation spread around the country and other African Americans used this case as an example to petition for more social rights. Over the course of years the Brown case has come to bring social rights to women, other minorities, and the disabled.