Brown+v.+Board

> ** 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 > **Eight percent of the city’s residents were black. Buses and railroads were integrated, but most restaurants, hotels, and other public places were usually segregated. the blacks were unable to do anything they were under lots of laws.**

> 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? > **unenforceable.** > **Fred Vinson died and since he died so,** > **President Dwight Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren as chief justice and he overturned pressys court case.** > > ** THE COURT DECISION (in your own words) (check** [|**Link 1**] **and Link 2)** > What did the Supreme Court decide in the landmark decision? > **Earl Warren wrote the decision for the Court. He agreed with the civil rights attorneys that it was not clear whether the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment intended to permit segregated public education. The doctrine of separate but equal did not appear until 1896, he noted, and the law only passed for african americans was transportation but education wasn't** > What was the Court's statement about the enforcement of the decision? What happened to the enforcement? > > > **THE IMPACT and LEGACY** **(Check** [|**Link 1**] **)** > What is the overall importance and legacy of //Brown v. Board//? > **The African American freedom struggle soon spread across the country. The original battle for school desegregation became part of broader campaigns for social justice**
 * ** THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration) (check [|Link 1] )**
 * In //Plessy v. Ferguson,//the Supreme Court had misinterpreted the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Equal protection of the laws did not allow for racial segregation.**
 * **The Fourteenth Amendment allowed the government to prohibit any discriminatory state action based on race, including segregation in public schools.**
 * **The Fourteenth Amendment did not stat that the states would be allowed to establish segregated education.**
 * **Psychological testing demonstrated the harmful effects of segregation on the minds of African American children and every other african american.**
 * **the laws said that african americans couldn't attend the same schools as whites**
 * Social separation of blacks and whites was a regional custom; the states should be left free to regulate their own social affairs.**
 * **Segregation was not harmful to black people.**
 * **Whites were making a good faith effort to equalize the two educational systems a school for the black and for the whites it would take some time before african american children were able to compete with white children in the same classroom.**
 * **some of the judges thought the desession was**
 * **but since chief justices**
 * **ENFORCING THE DECISION (discuss "with all deliberate speed) (Check [|Link 1] ** [|Video])
 * **ENFORCING THE DECISION (discuss "with all deliberate speed) (Check [|Link 1] ** [|Video])
 * **decision declared the system of legal segregation unconstitutional. But the Court ordered only that the states end segregation now that there was no more segragation white people were scared and worried about what the african americans are going to do.**
 * **In the mid-1950s Americans remained deeply divided over the issue of racial equality. African Americans pressed to have the Brown decision enforced,**