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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.

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