Brown vs Board of Education
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- Background Inforamtion
- Brown v. Board of Education was not simply about children and education. The laws and policies struck down by this court decision were products of the human tendencies to prejudge, discriminate against, and stereotype other people by their ethnic, religious, physical, or cultural characteristics. Ending this behavior as a legal practice caused far reaching social and ideological implications, which continue to be felt throughout our country. The Brown decision inspired and galvanized human rights struggles across the country and around the world.
- Facts
- Brown vs Board of Education wasn't the first challange to school segregation. As early as 1849, African Americans filed suit against an educational system that mandated racial segregation, in the case of Roberts v. City of Boston. Oliver Brown, the case namesake, was just one of the nearly 200 plaintiffs from five states who were part of the NAACP cases brought before the Supreme Court in 1951. The Kansas case was named for Oliver Brown as a legal strategy to have a man head the plaintiff roster.
- What the case represented
- What this legal challenge represents is at the core of United States history and the freedoms we enjoy. The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown began a critical chapter in the maturation of our democracy. It reaffirmed the sovereign power of the people of the United States in the protection of their natural rights from arbitrary limits and restrictions imposed by state and local governments. These rights are recognized in the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
- what does the NAACP mean?
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- What was Brown v. Board of Education
- It was Oliver Brown tried to enroll his black daughter Linda Brown in a all white school. Principle refuses so Oliver Brown takes to court
- When was Brwon v. Board of Education
- The trial was on June 25- June 26, 1951.
- What was the Board of Education's defense
- It pervaded many of aspects of life, they prepared black children for the segregation they would face during adult hood.
- When did Brown and the NAACP appeal the Supreme Court
- It occured on October 1, 1951
- case
- Supreme Court combined five cases under the heading of Brown v. Board of Education, because each sought the same legal remedy.
- backround info
- In 1950 McKinley Burnett, set out to organize a legal challenge to an 1879 State law that permitted racially segregated elementary schools in certain cities based on population. For Kansas this would become the 12th case filed in the state focused on ending segregation in public schools.
- History of Segregation
- In the early 1950's, racial segregation in public schools was the norm across America. Although all the schools in a given district were supposed to be equal, most black schools were far inferior to their white counterparts.
- Where was Brown vs. Board of Education located?
- Topeka, Kansas
- When was Linda Brown born?
- Linda Brown was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1943.
- When did Linda Brown die?
- Linda Brown is still alive. She is 66 years old.
- (a) The history of the Fourteenth Amendment is inconclusive as to its intended effect on public education. (b) The question presented in these cases must be determined not on the basis of conditions existing when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, b
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