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Brown vs Board
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Definition
What is it?
What is it?
Brown vs Board of Education
was a case brought to the Supreme Court because Oliver Brown was upset with how people of color were being treated in the public school system. The court deemed that segregation in school was in violation of the 14th Amendment therefore deeming it unconstitutional.
Prelude
Prelude
1954
- Topeka
- Not the first time they tried to desegregate schools
-> 1896, Supreme Court rules racially segregated public facilities legal
Plessy vs Ferguson
- Cornerstone of civil rights movement
- Instigated by the Jim Crow laws
-> after slavery abolished
-> "black codes"
Case
- Brown went to court because black schools were not equal to white schools, which was in violation of the 14th Amendment
NAACP
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Little Rock Nine
9 colored students escorted to school by federal troops in 1957
first test on Brown vs Board decision
What's
happening?
What's going on now?
Predominately black neighborhood school with poor conditions
Predominately white neighborhood with better conditions
2020
48.8%
black
27.6%
White
72.5%
WHite
8.3%
Black
black student attends a school
white student attends a school
Final Outlook
Final Look
voucher Schemes
Created to bypass black students attending schools in the 1950s, however, they still used today.
Schools remain segregated because of living environments and varying aptitude.
Statistically desegregated schools enhance learning all around.