SECOND BLOG POST

Forgot to post the second one last night, man I'm smart.

Yet another..

Brown v. Board of Education


-"In the early 1950's, racial segregation in public schools was the norm across America. Although all the schools in a given district were supposed to be equal, most black schools were far inferior to their white counterparts"

-Black third grade student named Linda Brown

-She walked over a mile every morning when there was a white school just blocks away

-Her father, Oliver Brown tried to get her into a white elementary school

-The principle of the white school refused her enrollment

-The Brown family went to the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

-They were joined by other families and in 1951 with help of the NAACP pressed charges to forbid segregation in Topeka public schools

-"Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children...A sense of inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learn"

-"The Board of Education's defense was that, because segregation in Topeka and elsewhere pervaded many other aspects of life, segregated schools simply prepared black children for the segregation they would face during adulthood"

THATS PATHETIC

-"The board also argued that segregated schools were not neccessarily harmful to black children; great African Americans such as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and George Washington Carver had overcome more than just segregated schools to achieve what they achieved."

-"Brown and the NAACP appealed to the Supreme Court on October 1, 1951 and their case was combined with other cases that challenged school segregation in South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware"

-"The Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision did not abolish segregation in other public areas, such as restaurants and restrooms, nor did it require desegregation of public schools by a specific time. It did, however, declare the permissive or mandatory segregation that existed in 21 states unconstitutional"

THIS NEXT QUOTE IS MONEY FOR SHO

-"It was a giant step towards complete desegregation of public schools." (talking about Brown case)


Cozzens, Lisa. "Brown v. Board of Education." _African American History._ 25 May 1998. 23 March 2009. http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/brown.html>.