brownvsboard

//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.** ||=  || The plaintiffs were Oliver Brown and 13 other parents from Topeka, Kansas. They were complaining about the segregation in elementary schools. The judge rulled against them and they took the case to the supreme court. The Fourteenth Amendment allowed the government to prohibit any discriminatory state action based on race, including segregation in public elementary and high schools. Also the Fourteenth Amendment did not specify whether the states would be allowed to establish segregated education in schools. The Constitution did not require white and African American children to attend the same schools and the social separation of blacks and whites was a regional custom; the states should be left free to regulate their own social affairs. They also said that segregation was not harmful to black people, whites were making a good 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 so it is for their own good.
 * BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES (more than one) (check video, [|Link 1], [|Link 2], [|Link 3])**
 * MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration) (check [|Link 1])**
 * MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS (for segregation) (check [|Link 1])**

The court was divided but when Chief Justice Fred Vinson died Dwight Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren as the replacement chief justice. He changed the way that the justices thought.
 * THE CHANGE IN THE COURT (leading to a decision) (check** [|**Link 1**]**)**

The court decided that the schools should be intergrated so African American students would not be restrained. They also claimed that the "seprate but equal" doctorine only pertained to transportation, not to the education of children.
 * 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 vaugness of the enforcing was great. The court ordered that the schools intergrated "with all deliberate speed". This gave the states the choice of how long it would take for the states to intergrate the schools.  Even though the whites still thought less of the African Americans, the schoold did get intergrated. The dicision led to have the same rights for women, ethnic groups, and people with disabilities and special needs.
 * THE IMPACT and LEGACY** **(Check** [|**Link 1**]**)**