What was the date for Brown V Board?
May 17, 1954
Why were African Americans denied admittance to certain schools?
Laws allowing public segregation
What principle did Brown v Board overturn?
What types of challenges did Black children face to get to school?
Having to walk longer miles to get to school.
What is "desegregation"?
Striking out racial segregation policies
What did lawyers that won B v B argue in B v B II?
Desegregation should start right away
Why is Brown v Board the most talked about case?
It declared segregation unconstitutional
Desegregating in schools led to...?
Desegregation in housing, public and higher education
What is the "Massive Resistance"?
Laws passed in response to prevent school integration
What elementary school did Linda Brown want to go to?
Sumner, Elementary
Where did the Brown family's case take place?
Topeka, Kansas
Why did states disagree during B v B II?
They claimed desegregation was too difficult and too expensive
What was the impact of Brown V Board?
Both black and white people could go to the same school. Races were equal.
Which legislators called for "Massive Resistance"?
Southern legislators
Who else did these cases open doors for?
Disabled people
What did Black people want out of B v B?
They wanted black students to attend the same school their white peers.
Why was B v B II significant?
It made it easier to make sure schools integrated
Do problems like these still come up today? (Racially)
Ex: Voting rights taken based on race.
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"The __ of separate but equal has no place. Separate __ facilities are inherently unequal."
Doctrine/principle, educational
What were two ways white parents would participate in Massive Resistance?
Transferring their children to private, white-only schools, and harassing and violently attacking Black students while their own children watched or participated.
What was the date when B v B II was argued & decided?
April 11-14th & May 31,1955
What was the Brown's family cause for Brown v Board of Edu?
Linda Brown could not attend a less-crowded white school a few blocks from her home.
According to the video, what did B v B do?
"Paved the way for integration"
Brown v Board II made a process for integration in schools by what 3 things?
Giving Federal districts the power to supervise the schools, control how long they could have to desegregate, and punish them if they refused to integrate.
Other cases include...
Briggs v Elliot, Bolling v Sharpe, Davis v country school board, & Belton v. Gebhart