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Brown vs. Board of Education

Brown vs. Board of Education. Anna Volpe Margaret Shin Hannah Michaelis Lauren Rosenberg . Pictures. This picture is showing the outcome of the case meaning that segregation in schools is not longer allowed.

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Brown vs. Board of Education

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  1. Brown vs. Board of Education Anna Volpe Margaret Shin Hannah Michaelis Lauren Rosenberg

  2. Pictures This picture is showing the outcome of the case meaning that segregation in schools is not longer allowed. This picture is showing a white school at this time. It shows also how unequal the schools actually are even though they are supposed to be separate but equal. This picture is showing a black school at this time. The schools are not actually equal.

  3. Political Cartoon This political cartoon is showing that in Brown vs. Board of education, they decided that separate but equal is not actually equal. In this decision the US Supreme Court overthrew the earlier decision of Plessy vs. Ferguson. As you can see, many states (especially southern states) disagreed with this decision. Arkansas in particular did not like the Supreme Court decision.

  4. Keywords • Segregation: separate people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups in schools, housing, and public/commercial facilities, as a form of distribution • District court: US federal trial level court that serves that judicial district • 14th Amendment: equal protection clause; all people are treated the same as others in that situation (legal provision)

  5. Background Information • A third grade, black girl named Linda Brown had to walk over a mile to get to school across a dangerous railroad switchyard even though there was a white school only a few blocks away. • Her father tried to enroll her in the white school but the principal would not allow it. • In 1951, they asked for the NAACP for help and with their help, the case was appealed up to the Supreme Court.

  6. Facts • Black kids were denied admission to public schools attended by white kids. • Precedents: Plessy vs. Ferguson, Gaines vs. Canada, Strauder vs. West Virginia • Overruled Plessy vs. Ferguson • Jim Crowe Laws

  7. Time line • 1950: parents of black girl tried to enroll her in white schools • 1951: suit is filed by Oliver Brown and many other parents at the US District Court of Kansas • 1952: Supreme court took their case and heard from the lawyers • 1954: Case ends in favor of Brown

  8. “We conclude that the doctrine ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” - Chief Justice Earl Warren

  9. Works Cited • www.law.cornell.edu • www.oyez.org • www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us • www.library.thinkquest.org • www.watson.org

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