Brown v. Board of Education

English Presentation

Solita Lam &Nelly Stadel

Brown v. Board of education

Background

• End of Civil war promised social equality
• Jim Crow laws - Educational Segregation
• " Seperate but Equal " doctrine
• racially seperated schools
• students' feeling of inferiority deprived them of educational opportunities

• NAACP encouraged African Americans to enroll their children into all white schools including Oliver Brown's daughter Linda

- all were rejected

• 1950 Oliver Brown Filed a class-action lawsuit

- segregation by its nature was a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause

• Federal District Court rejected

Court Case

• 1953: 5 similar cases from diffrent states and Brown v. Board of Education went to supreme court
• Supreme Court Argument: As Long as school facilities were made equal they are equal according to the fourteenth amendment
• Justice Warren (NAACP):

- seperating others causes feelings of inferiority which could be permament - segregated schools could not be made equal

Court Case

• ruling fueled the civil rights movement in the United States.
• lead to desegregation of public places like hotels, restaurants
• overcoming the "seperate but equal" doctrine
• Brown v. Board foundation
• ensuring freedom and civil rights for everyone

- still fighting against racial inequality

Impact

Decision

• May 17th 1954: The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintive
• All school districts had to remove policies of racial segregation
• But no certain method - changes took time

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