Brown+v.+Board+of+Education

//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 ** MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration) (check [|Link 1])** List the major arguments of the plaintiffs ** MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS (for segregation) (check [|Link 1])** List the major arguments of the Defendants ** THE CHANGE IN THE COURT (leading to a decision) (check** [|**Link 1**]**)** What important change happened, and what was its impact? The Chief Justice wasn't sure if the Constitution could end segregation but he died and anew chief was appointed, one who was against segregation and led the way to overturning the Plessy v. Ferguson case What did the Court decide? That segregation was unconstitutional because it has a detrimental to black children and hindered their ability. **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? They said to end segregation with “all deliberate speed.” and this allowed segregationists to organize a defense. **THE IMPACT and LEGACY** **(Check** [|**Link 1**]**)** What is the overall importance and legacy of //Brown v. Board//? The African American freedom struggle spread and now fifty years later blacks and many other minorities are considered equal to us.
 * BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES (more than one) (check video, [|Link 1], [|Link 2], [|Link 3])**
 * Segregated schools end up having a negative affect on young African Americans
 * Brown wanted his daughter to go to an all white school because it was a better education and closer to home
 * The case went in Browns favor declaring segregation unconstitutional and starting the civil rights movement
 * This overturned the case pf Plessy v. Ferguson
 * In the Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court misinterpreted the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth amendment.
 * The fourteenth amendment gave the government the power to prohibit racial discrimination
 * The fourteenth amendment didn't say whether the states could be allowed to establish segregated education
 * Testing demonstrated that segregated schools had a negative affect on African American children
 * The Constitution did not specify that whites and blacks had to go to school together
 * Segregation was a regional decision and should be left to the states
 * Segregation wasn't harmful to black children
 * Black children weren't smart enough to keep up in white schools because they were still suffering from under knowledge because of slavery
 * THE COURT DECISION (in your own words) (check** [|**Link 1**] **and Link 2)**