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 //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.** ||  ||   ||

**SETTING THE STAGE**  - [|.]  **Were you successful? What did your learn in the activity (just think about it ....)

THE BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES** Make a bulleted list of the basic facts of the __cases__  brought to the Supreme Court There were 5 cases involved in the brown cases __Bulah v. Gebhart Delaware__  Parents brought case because kids couldn’t go to school in community Bus transportation was available to whites Kids denied admission to white schools Plaintiffs won kids were to be admitted to white schools J

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__Brown v. Board of Education__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Parents trying to sent kids to white schools 12th case focusing on ending segregation in Kansas Plaintiffs won at US Supreme Court <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">J

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__Bolling v. Sharpe__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Parents trying to end segregated schooling in Washington DC New schools where classrooms are empty District court dismissed the case because other court decisions decided that segregation was constitutional <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">L

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__Briggs v. Elliott__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Challenged segregation itself Instead of ending segregation they equalized schools Judges who judged this case lost their jobs because they were opposed to segregation <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__Davis v. Country School Board of Prince Edward Country__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wanted indoor plumbing District court said they would be provided with equal facilities they were still denied the acees to go to white schools though

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration)** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Plessy v Ferguson was unconstitutional because equal protection doesn’t allow segregation The 14th amendment says the government can say no to discrimination The 14th amendment doesn’t give states the right to segregate Segregation is psychologically harmful to black children

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS (for segregation)** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The constitution did not require blacks and whites to be in the same schools Local customs should control and states’ rights should be respected Black people are not harmed by segregation Black kids can’t compete with white kids in a classroom this would take time

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**THE CHANGE IN THE COURT (leading to a decision)** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">September 1953 Justice Vinson died Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren as chief justice Overturned the case that said segregation is okay

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**COURT DECISION (in your own words)** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Segregation is unconstitutional according to the 14th amendment It dealed with freedoms for blacks not just in schools but in other settings

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**ENFORCING THE DECISION (discuss "with all deliberate speed)** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It wasn’t clear how desegregation would be enforced. Some people didn’t want it; some people did. People were deeply divided. It was very difficult to enforce.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**THE IMPACT and LEGACY** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It spread farther than just segregation of blacks in schools. It now involves all minorities who seek equal protection and opportunity. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">

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