Brown+vs.+Board+of+Education


 * SETTING THE STAGE** - ** [|Participate in The Road to Justice activity] Were you successful? What did your learn in the activity (just think about it ....) **

** THE BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES (more than one) (check video, [|Link 1], [|Link 2] , [|Link 3] )** Make a bulleted list of the basic facts of the __cases__ brought to the Supreme Court
 * segregated schools had bad psycological effects on African American children
 * school segregation was an option in kansas
 * they put brown before board in the case name to make it sound less racist

** THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration) (check [|Link 1] )** List the major arguments of the plaintiffs ** THE 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 in the Supreme Court, and what was its impact? President Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren as chief justice, which led to a unanimous decision to overturn Plessy in the train case. ** THE COURT DECISION (in your own words) (check** [|**Link 1**] **and Link 2)** What did the Supreme Court decide in the landmark decision? That segregation did have a bad affect on colored children and that there is no such thing as "seperate but equal" and it was unethical to segregate 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? They did not really enforce the ruling which gave the people who supported segregation time to organize resistance to the court decision. The segregationists organized military resistance to this choice.  **THE IMPACT and LEGACY** **(Check** [|**Link 1**] **)**  What is the overall importance and legacy of //Brown v. Board//? It led other minorities like people with disabilites and women and other ethnic groups to demand equal opportunity
 * that the supreme court had misinterpreted the equal protection part of the 14th amendment
 * the 14th amendment allowed the government to discriminate anything based on race
 * the 14th amendment did not specify on education segregation
 * segregation was harmful on the minds of African American children
 * constitution did not require whites and blacks to go to school together
 * the states should be able to make their own decisions about segregation
 * segregation was not harmful to black people
 * whites were trying to equalize the two educational systems