Brown+vs.+Board+of+Education+assingnment

~**Took place in Topeka, Kansas. ~segregation was allowed only in elementary schools ~angry parents challenged Topeka's policy of segregated schooling ~not the first case to challenge local segregation laws **MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE PLAINTIFF: ** ~if the 14th amendment was true, then racial segregation should not be allowed ~the government was allowed to stop discrimination based on race ~the 14th amendment was not clear about if racial segregation was alright ~studies show the negative effects on African American children going through segregation
 * BASIC FACTS OF THE CASES:

~**it wasn't required by the Constitution to integrate schools ~states should be allowed to make the decision of integration ~African Americans didn't mind segregation; it wasn't harmful to them ~African American children were still recovering from slavery and it would take a while for them to compete with whites in the same classroom.
 * MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE DEFENDANTS :

The justices worried that they had the constitutional power to end school segregation. Another worry was that it just couldn't happen; people would not listen to it. The chief justice of the time of the start of the case died, bringing a new justice: Earl Warren. The Supreme Court then decided to overturn the Plessy Case, changing American History.
 * THE CHANGE IN THE COURT: **

The new chief justice, Earl Warren, said " Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children." Basically that education was the most important thing, and depriving African American children from this was wrong and needed to stop. He said seperate is not always equal, and in this case it certainly wasn't. **ENFORCING THE DECISION:** The Brown decision made segregation illegal, but only states who were going "with all deliberate speed", meaning that only for states who were completely and 100% full and purposely segregated. Many white southerners, especially in the government, resisted and fought back against this. They felt that it was an assault on their way of life, just like their ancestors felt before the Civil War.  Though African Americans pushed for the Brown case to be enforced, southerners pushed equally hard back. Both were astounded at each other's determinedness to get what they wanted. Later, more than 50 years after the case, other minorities are fighting for equal treatment.
 * THE COURT DECISION: **
 * THE IMPACT and LEGACY** :