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] Were you successful? What did your learn in the activity (just think about it ....) **
 * = **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 BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES (more than one) (check <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[|video], <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[|Link 1] , <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[|Link 2]  , <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[|Link 3]  ) ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Make a bulleted list of the basic facts of the __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">cases __ brought to the Supreme Court

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Brown vs. Board - Topeka, Kansas, complaints against the segregated elementary schools that proved dissatisfactory for the children's learning, lead by 13-year-old Oliver Brown. The court agreed that separate was not equal.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #c81919; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration) (check <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[|Link 1] ) ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">List the major arguments of the plaintiffs

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">- Plessy vs. Ferguson misjudged the 14th amendment <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">- 14th Amendment allowed segregation <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">- 14th amendment said nothing about segregating schools <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">- It was scientifically proven that segregation was harmful to the mind

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #c81919; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS (for segregation) (check <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[|Link 1] ) ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">List the major arguments of the Defendants

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">- Constitution does not require any integration of schools <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">- It was a matter of the states' choice <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">- Segregation doesn't do anything to harm people <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">- Blacks were "dumber"

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #c81919; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">THE CHANGE IN THE COURT (leading to a decision) (check ** <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; backgroundclip: initial; backgroundorigin: initial; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[|**Link 1**] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">) ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">What important change happened in the Supreme Court, and what was its impact?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The leader of the Supreme court at the time was undecided, but very well-timedly died, clearing the way for a new, anti-segregationist leader that overturned the Plessy case.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #c81919; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">THE COURT DECISION (in your own words) (check ** <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; backgroundclip: initial; backgroundorigin: initial; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[|**Link 1**] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">and Link 2) ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">What did the Supreme Court decide in the landmark decision?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">They said that the original case had not said anything about education, but instead had argued against integration on transportation. Besides, it was all in the past, anyway!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #c81919; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #c81919; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">ENFORCING THE DECISION <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">(discuss "with all deliberate speed) (Check <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; backgroundclip: initial; backgroundorigin: initial; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[|Link 1]  ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[|Video] ) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">What was the Court's statement about the enforcement of the decision? What happened to the enforcement?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">They said these problems should be taken care of "with all deliberate speed," but it seems like some people took that the wrong way and rushed headlong into things they couldn't handle.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #c81919; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #c81919; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">THE IMPACT and LEGACY ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">(Check ** <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; backgroundclip: initial; backgroundorigin: initial; color: #000000; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[|**Link 1**] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">) ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">What is the overall importance and legacy of //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Brown v. Board //?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">It changed pretty much everything, and basically opened America's arms to the Civil Rights Movement, come what may.