Brown+V.+Board

//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.** ||  ||=   ||

Make a bulleted list of the basic facts of the cases brought to the Supreme Court List the major arguments of the plaintiffs ** MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS (for segregation) (check [|Link 1])** List the major arguments of the Defendants What important change happened, and what was its impact? In September 1953 Vinson died, this means the president gets to chose a new Judge in the Supreme Court. This has a chance to change the decision that seemed to be pretty equal before Vinson died. Earl Warren was picked and his leadership made an unanimous decision to overturn //Plessy// This was a big change for the chase. ** THE COURT DECISION (in your own words) (check** [|**Link 1**] **and Link 2)** What did the Court decide? racial segregation of any kind deprived African Americans of equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment and due process under the Fifth Amendment. **ENFORCING THE DECISION (discuss "with all deliberate speed) (Check [|Link 1] ** **)**  What was the Court's statement about the enforcement of the decision? What happened to the enforcement?  “all deliberate speed," was the statement that courts said to the school was small enough to let people who disliked the idea get a way to stop this from happening. People started to fight the decision and protest about it. **THE IMPACT and LEGACY** **(Check** [|**Link 1**]**)** What is the overall importance and legacy of //Brown v. Board//? This movement has come to include racial and ethnic minorities, women, people with disabilities, and other groups, each demanding equal opportunity
 * BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES (more than one) (check video, [|Link 1], [|Link 2], [|Link 3])**
 * named for collection of cases that ended segregation in public schools.
 * The U.S. Supreme Court had consolidated these five cases under one name, //Oliver Brown et al. v. the Board of Education of Topeka//.
 * There are many different thoughts on the subject and there was not one overall favorite.
 * This collection of cases was the culmination of years of legal groundwork laid by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
 * Cases were in Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington, DC.
 * MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration) (check [|Link 1])**
 * equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Equal protection of the laws did not allow for racial segregation.
 * Fourteenth Amendment did not specify whether the states would be allowed to establish segregated education.
 * Constitution did not require white and African American children to attend the same schools.
 * states should be left free to regulate their own social affairs.
 * Segregation was not harmful to black people.
 * THE CHANGE IN THE COURT (leading to a decision) (check** [|**Link 1**]**)**