BrownVs.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.** ||=   || **MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration) (check [|Link 1])** There can be no equal protection when there is racial segregation. The 14th Amendment prohibited state racial discrimination in public schools. The 14th Amendment did not state that segregation in education was allowable. Segregation caused psychological harm to African Americans. Blacks and white do not have to attend the same school under the 14th Amendment. Regional social customs are a state, not federal issue. Segregation is not harmful to blacks. Whites were in good faith attempting to provide an equal education to blacks but because of slavery, blacks were incapable of equality. Chief Justice Vinson and a few others on the Court doubted they had the authority to integrate and worried about the enforceability of integration. Vinson died in the middle of the case and Chief Justice Earl Warren took over in 1953. Warren wrote that yes, the 14th Amendment was unclear but the separate but qual clause didn't happen until 1896 and dealt with transportation, not education. That was the past. In the present, inferior education caused by segregation was depriving blacks of equal protection under the 14th Amendmant and due process under the 5th Amendment. **ENFORCING THE DECISION (discuss "with all deliberate speed) (Check [|Link 1] ****)** White supremicists tried to block desgregation . US soldiers had to enforce the African Americans entrance into the white schools. The African American freedom struggle spread from education to other social justice causes and then to the struggle for other minority, women and disability rights.
 * BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES (more than one) (check video, [|Link 1], [|Link 2], [|Link 3])**
 * //Brown v. Board of Education// Legal Case Summary**
 * Place:** Topeka, Kansas
 * Grievance:** Segregated elementary schools, and the harmful psychological effects of segregation on African American children
 * Plaintiffs:** Oliver Brown and 13 other parents from Topeka
 * Decision:** A three-judge federal court ruled against the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs’ appeal reached the U.S. Supreme Court. There it was combined with four other cases from around the country. The Court held segregation to be in violation of the 5th Amendment due process clause.
 * MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS (for segregation) (check [|Link 1])**
 * THE CHANGE IN THE COURT (leading to a decision) (check** [|**Link 1**]**)**
 * THE COURT DECISION (in your own words) (check** [|**Link 1**] **and Link 2)**
 * THE IMPACT and LEGACY** **(Check** [|**Link 1**]**)**