Brown v Board of Education Project

By: Noel Rodriguez

BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION

The case was about segregation in schools. Linda Brown was a third grader who was denied admission to

her local elementary school in Topeka, Kansas because she was black and the school was only for White students.

Her father Oliver Brown then sued, in1951, the Board of Education with other parents that also tried taking their

children in local schools.Then Mr. Brown because he was turned down by the school

went to the NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) for help.

The NAACP hired lawyers to fight for African American children around the United States so that they could be

allowed to go to the same schools as white children.

WHAT WAS THE CASE ABOUT?

The case was brought to the Supreme Court because it was lost in the State level.

The state court said that colored children could not attend schools for white children because of the case of Plessy v.

Ferguson which stated that separate but equal school systems for black and

white children was constitutional.

After losing the cse in the state court the NAACP took the case to the Supreme Court.

On October 1, 1951 they appealed to the Supreme Court.

NAACP attorneys argued that segregated schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment and harmed black students.

WHAT LEAD THE CASE TO THE SUPREME COURT.

After 3 years the case finally ended on May 17, 1954.

The Brown decision declared the system of legal segregation unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court sided with African Americans and called the Jim Crows laws of separate but equal

unconstitutional.

Judges voted 9 to 0.

But there were some unhappy white people who thought that it was not legal to integrate schools.

THE DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT

Rosa Louise Parks was born 1913 and died in 2005 at

the age of 92.

She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama

She was home schooled by her mother and did not

attend a public school until the age of 11.

In 1932 she married Raymond Parks, who was a

member of the NAACP

On December 1, 1955 in downtown Montgomery Rosa Parks had paid her bus fare and sat down in the first row of the back seats that were reserved for blacks in the

“colored” section.

When she was told to move so that a white person could sit she refused and was arrested.

Her sit down on the bus caused the Montgomery Bus

Boycott

Personal Life Life as an Activist

ROSA PARKS

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