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Brown v. Board of education
Solita Lam &
Nelly Stadel
English Presentation
- End of Civil war promised social equality
- Jim Crow laws - Educational Segregation
- " Seperate but Equal " doctrine
- racially seperated schools
- students' feeling of inferiority deprived them of educational opportunities
Background
Court Case
- NAACP encouraged African Americans to enroll their children into all white schools including Oliver Brown's daughter Linda
- all were rejected
- 1950 Oliver Brown Filed a class-action lawsuit
- segregation by its nature was a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause
- Federal District Court rejected
Court Case
- 1953: 5 similar cases from diffrent states and Brown v. Board of Education went to supreme court
- Supreme Court Argument: As Long as school facilities were made equal they are equal according to the fourteenth amendment
- Justice Warren (NAACP):
- seperating others causes feelings of inferiority which could be permament - segregated schools could not be made equal
- May 17th 1954: The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintive
- All school districts had to remove policies of racial segregation
- But no certain method - changes took time
Decision
Impact
- ruling fueled the civil rights movement in the United States.
- lead to desegregation of public places like hotels, restaurants
- overcoming the "seperate but equal" doctrine
- Brown v. Board foundation
- ensuring freedom and civil rights for everyone
- still fighting against racial inequality
Sources
https://www.britannica.com/event/Brown-v-Board-of-Education-of-Topeka
https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/history-brown-v-board-education-re-enactment
https://www.civilrightsteaching.org/home-feature-images
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Educational_separation_in_the_US_prior_to_Brown_Map.svg/1280px-Educational_separation_in_the_US_prior_to_Brown_Map.svg.png
https://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/index.html
https://brown65.the74million.org/brownvboard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX9Dmo24_cc&t=414s