2. WHAT WAS THE CASE ABOUT?
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.
3. WHAT LEAD THE CASE TO THE
SUPREME COURT.
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.
4. THE DECISION OF 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.
5. ROSA PARKS
Pe r s o n a l L i f e L i f e a s a n A c t iv i s t
Rosa Louise Parks was born 1913 On December 1, 1955 in
and died in 2005 at the age of 92. downtown Montgomery Rosa
She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama Parks had paid her bus fare and
sat down in the first row of the
She was home schooled by her
back seats that were reserved for
mother and did not attend a public
blacks in the “colored” section.
school until the age of 11.
When she was told to move so that
In 1932 she married Raymond
a white person could sit she
Parks, who was a member of the
refused and was arrested.
NAACP
Her sit down on the bus caused
the Montgomery Bus Boycott
