Brown+Vs.+Board

By Merrill R and Rose R 5/4/2011

//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 ....) ** - I got very few followers and hit a lot of road blocks that weren't helpful. A lot of people are against me and my time ran short. ** THE BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES (more than one) (check video, [|Link 1], [|Link 2] , [|Link 3] )** -Harmful segregation of African Americans -Highlights change in society -Years of groundwork laid out
 * = **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.** ||  ||=   ||
 * Make a bulleted list of the basic facts of the __cases__ brought to the Supreme Court **

** THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration) (check [|Link 1] )**
 * List the major arguments of the plaintiffs **
 * The fourteenth amendment didn't say if the states were aloud to establish segregated education.
 * The fourteenth amendment aloud the government to forbid any unequal actions because of race.
 * The fourteenth amendmen t was a equal protection law pass so that they was no racial division.
 * Psychological testing show that racial division damages blacks minds.

** THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS (for segregation) (check [|Link 1] )**
 * List the major arguments of the Defendants **
 * The formation doesn't claim at blacks and whites to go to the same schools.
 * The stares shouldn't be free to manege the social affairs.
 * The separation between blacks and whites wasn't hurting them.
 * Whites are trying to help but because black children are still living with the aftermath of black slaves,it would be hard to put them in the same room.

** THE CHANGE IN THE COURT (leading to a decision) (check** [|**Link 1**] **)** -The court tried to end school segregation but because the cases was hard from the start, many people worried that it would be imposable to in force this law. " Education was perhaps the most vital function of state and local governments, and racial segregation of any kind deprived African Americans of equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment and due process under the Fifth Amendment."
 * What important change happened in the Supreme Court, and what was its impact? **

 " Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law, for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the Negro group...Any language in contrary to this finding is rejected.

** THE COURT DECISION (in your own words) (check** [|**Link 1**] **and Link 2)** -It was decided that the term " Seperate but equal" had no place because it effected the colored people very harshly. Children in schools were really effected.
 * What did the Supreme Court decide in the landmark decision? **

**ENFORCING THE DECISION (discuss "with all deliberate speed) (Check [|Link 1] ** **)**  Websites state "Segregationists played on the fears and prejudices of their communities and launched a militant campaign of defiance and resistance. " People were against the law but the enforcement was pushing them.
 * What was the Court's statement about the enforcement of the decision? What happened to the enforcement? **

**THE IMPACT and LEGACY** **(Check** [|**Link 1**] **)** - The importance is that there was a very large separation between blacks and whites, some people we not ready for the brown decision to be push. Many southerners didn't think the black would push for this so hard. The struggle for blacks soon was spread all around the country, and the freedom for the blacks and whites to school together became more important.
 * What is the overall importance and legacy of //Brown v. Board//? **