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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

  • Linda Brown was a Black elementary school student who lived right next to an all-white elementary school in Topeka, Kansas.
  • She had to walk a long way each day to get to the “colored” school she was assigned to attend - across railroad tracks and through unsafe areas.

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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

  • With the help of the NAACP - led by Thurgood Marshall - her family sued for her right to attend the school closest to her.
  • The case eventually reached the Supreme Court of the United States, which considered it along with several other similar cases from other states.

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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) established the principle of “separate but equal” - state and local governments could segregate public services as long as they accomplished the same thing for both races.

The 14th Amendment Says…

“No State shall… deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

The Court had 3 basic options…

  1. Leave things the way they were
  2. Require that schools truly be “equal” even if they remained separated by race
  3. Require schools to desegregate

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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Chief Justice Earl Warren issued the Court’s unanimous opinion - that separate facilities are INHERENTLY unequal, and education is too essential to success in the modern world to allow such inequalities to continue.

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Each of the following slides contains a single paragraph which has been broken apart and scrambled. Using context clues and “what sounds right,” rearrange the strips into the best possible paragraph.

NOTE: There may be several variations which work even though they’re not the original order. Strive to find the arrangement with the most logical flow and clarity.

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