Brown+v.+Board+of+Education+of+Topeka

//**__Brown vs. Board of Education__ 1. Black Children were dinied admission to public schools attended by white kids.

2. Justice Thurgood Marshall challenged Justice Lews Powell's judgement that a basic minimal education was all that was required

3. Thurgood Marshall thought that every kid black or white should gt the same equal education, not just minimal.

4. Brown wasn't just about putting whites blacks together in school he wanted to put them together as a community.

5. The schoold were not getting racially mixed fast enough, and so it caused protesting into the 60's buy the black people.

6. The south was affected by this law more than the north.

7. It was the state that conrolled the schools before Brown, then the federal government became involved.

8. Well the white people had good clean and well equiped school, while the blacks had the shabby, poorly equiped schools.

9. In 1950 only two percent of black Mississippians graduated from high school.

10. Mississipp spent 122 per capita annually on the education of each whit child but onl 32 dollars for each black student.

11. The southern staets wanted the schools to stay segredated.

12. Whites who wanted to keep segregation joined The Citizens' council and harassed the civil rights workers.

13. Thurgood Marshall who was he first African American member of the Supreme Court.

14. Thurgood Marshall's mother was a teacher in Baltimore, which may have influenced him in education.

15. From compensatroy education money for inner city schools to busing programs.

16. The 1954 United States Supreme court decision in Oliver L. Brown vs. the Borad of Education of Topeka Kansas.

17. Brown vs. Borad of Education is among the most significant judicial turning points in the developmnt of our country.

18. First led by Charles H. Houston, and later Thurgood Marshell and a formidable legel team.

19. It dismanteld the legel basis for racial segregation in schools and public community.

20. By the white people declearing that the that the discriminatory nature of racial segregation, which violates the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constition, which guarantees all citizens equal protction of the law.

21. Brown vs. Borad of Education was not all about the children and there education.

22. It was also about how the white people prejudge, discriminate against, and stereotype the black people.

23. Brown vs. Borad of Education was not the first time to school segregation.

24. The supreme court combined five cases under the heading of Brown vs. Borad of Education, because each sought the same legel case.

25. The Brown vs. Borad of Education victory brought this country one step closer to living up to its democratic ideas.

Books**// Taking Sides Education Issues: Green Hawen Pres Last Chance For Your Children: Bil Hong

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