2.+Brown+vs.+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]**

Make a bulleted list of the basic facts of the cases brought to the Supreme Court - In Topeka, there were for segregated middle schools and 13 parents said it was harmful for their children to go to segregated schools. - The case said that segregated schools was harmful to black kids and it was against the 14th amendment. - Many said that the black schools were inferior to the white schools and they did not get the same education and treatment. - They said that in come cases the whole state only had four schools, so it would take so long to get there because they may not be close to the school at all, the white school could be right down the road, but they had to travel all the way to the black schools instead.  -The NCAAP were the challengers
 * BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES (more than one) (check video, [|Link 1], [|Link 2], [|Link 3])**

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

Many of the cases argued that it was a violation of the 14th amendment because it did not give them equal rights like the 14th amendment was supposed to do. They also argued that the government had to protect discrimination and the schools were definitely discriminatory to the blacks. Another argument was that they had testing and it proved that the black schools were harmful to the children's minds.

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

The defendants said that the Constitution never stated that whites and blacks had to go to the same school, so there was nothing wrong with it. They also said that it was up to the states to decide whatever they wanted with school laws and if Kansas wanted that, it was okay. Also, they stated that the schools were not harmful to black children at all.

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

First, the chief justice thought that making schools not segregated would not be reverseable if it did not work out. But, that justice died and a new one was appointed by the president. This new chief justice made the decision to overturn the Plessy decision. He was very persuasive and so he got people to be on his side.

What did the Court decide?
 * THE COURT DECISION (in your own words) (check** [|**Link 1**] **and Link 2)**

The court said that Brown won because everyone should have the equal education and it was not fair for that to be changed because of the color of your skin. The new decision was by Earl Warner who said that seperate was not equal, and they tried to soon and quickly desegregate all schools.

**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? The court stated that all states had to end segregation as soon as possible. This was though of as offensive so whites and they all thought that their way of life was being effected. this also let people protest and feel better about themselves because all of their work had truly accomplished something. So this pretty much set the stage for the civil rights movement and all other pushing for equal rights in __public__ places because the schools were public.

What is the overall importance and legacy of //Brown v. Board//? This was when it spread all around the country that they had fought for something, for their rights and they had now got something out of it. It also spread to other ethnic groups who were being treated badly and now were fights for rights. This was a great and important step in our history.
 * THE IMPACT and LEGACY** **(Check** [|**Link 1**]**)**