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?**

**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 Brown v Board of Education case has many basic facts. This case takes place in kansas which was never really established as a slave state. They weren't as rigid as the deep south with their predjudice ways. The state rule was that if a school wanted to be segregated it could be but only in elementary schools. Topeka created four all African American elementary schools.
 * BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES (more than one) (check video, [|Link 1], [|Link 2], [|Link 3])**

There were psychological effects on the African American children that had to be segregated. The Fourteenth Amendment didn't state whether or whether not states could segregate schools. The Fourteenth Amendment stated that the government could prohibit any discriminitory act including segregating schools. Equal protection for the laws for people didn't allow racial segregation which was going on.
 * MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration) (check [|Link 1])**

They argued that nowhere in the constitution did it say that African Americans and whites had to attend the same school and couldn't be segregated. They said that states should be free to regulate their own social affairs and the segregation of blacks and whites was said to be a social affair. They argued that segregation didn't harm the African Americans. They claimed that African Americans were still living with the effects of slavery so they wouldn't be able to compete with the whites in the same classroom.
 * MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS (for segregation) (check [|Link 1])**

The supreme court agreed to hear this case in June 1952. They worried that the decision to segregate the schools would be unenforcable. Earl Warren was then appointed as Cheif Justice by Dwight Eisenhower. Warren's ways to create a unanimous way to overturn Plessy went down in history. The nine justices were divided in their beliefs.
 * THE CHANGE IN THE COURT (leading to a decision) (check** [|**Link 1**]**)**

Warren agreed that it wasn't clear whether the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment meant to segregate the schools. He claimed that segregating the schools took away the African American's rights to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment. He also said that the doctorine pertained to transportation and not education though. He agreed that the segregation had effect on the African American children in a negative way.
 * 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 decision was that the segregation of schools was unconstitutional. The Court ordered that the states stop segregation with "all deliberate speed." The vagueness of that gave room for segregationalists to protest this. Most americans got along fine with the ruling but some of them protested it. They protested the courts decisions with signs and they would go on the streets and parade them around.

America was very divided over this situation. Some people wanted it to go back to the old southern way of life and some integrationalists wanted to enforce the new way of integration. The African American freedom struggle went all across America. The school desegregation became part of more different social justice. These led to the fight for equalness among women, people with disabilities, different ethnic backgrounds, and other things of the sort.
 * THE IMPACT and LEGACY** **(Check** [|**Link 1**]