Brown+vs+Board+of+Education

Make a bulleted list of the basic facts of the __cases__ brought to the Supreme Court
 * THE BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES (more than one)**

Plaintiffs
 * It was harder to get to school if the closest black school was 20 blocks away.
 * Children didn't have the same opportunity to learn.
 * Segregation hurt the african-american population because the education quality was lower.
 * Thurgood Marshall said it was not enough to have equal school but too have equal everything.
 * Mr. Marshall also said that segregation as a whole branded black children.

Defendants
 * John W. Davis based his argument on the Plessy vs. Ferguson trial
 * Mr. Davis also said that blacks should not throw ".....away the equality that existed between black and white schools simply to achieve prestige"

** THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF (for integration)** List the major arguments of the plaintiffs

Segregation led to harmful psychological problems for black children The inequality was blatant The schools were getting over-crowded and were underfunded Schools far from home Black children were denied access to "white" schools The Supreme Court messed up the Plessy vs. Ferguson case The 14th amendment allowed the Government to ban segregation Segregation hurt little black children psychologically

** THE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS (for segregation)** List the major arguments of the Defendants

Equal protection did not mean integration, as proved in the Plessy vs Ferguson case The blacks have come a long way since being slaves and are reaching equality The states should decide if the public places should be segregated Segregation was not harmful to the black population Whites were trying to balance out the inequality

** THE CHANGE IN THE COURT (leading to a decision)** What important change happened in the Supreme Court, and what was its impact?

Fred Vinson died and Dwight D. Eisenhower picked a new Supreme Court Justice who convinced the rest of the judges to change their mind and have the plaintiffs win.

** THE COURT DECISION (in your own words)** What did the Supreme Court decide in the landmark decision?

The decided that the schools were segregated and that it was an unequal quality of education so they ruled in favor of the plaintiff and said that black people can enroll in "white schools" and that segregation in schools will not be tolerated.

**ENFORCING THE DECISION (discuss "with all deliberate speed") ** What was the Court's statement about the enforcement of the decision? What happened to the enforcement?

The statement declared the system of segregation unconstitutional, but the court said only that the states end segregation "with all deliberate speed  ." ﻿Enforcement of integration was not done well. Many people opposed the thought of integration almost all white people.

**THE IMPACT and LEGACY** What is the overall importance and legacy of //Brown v. Board//?

It gives us the thought that segregation was a thing that people believed was ok and that it was fine to be unequal but this court decision showed that segregation was not just "equal but different" it was unequal and different which different is not what we are working towards but especially unequal is going the total opposite direction of where the us should be when it comes to segregation.