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Brown v. Board of Education
Decided in 1954, Brown v. the Board of Education was a US Supreme Court case that took away a state's rights to segragate schools. It overturned an earlier case, Plessy v. Ferguson. This ruling allowed for school integration.
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How did Earl Warren stand on the Brown versus Board of Education?
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 US 483 (1954)
Justice William O. Douglas wrote: "In the original conference there were only four who voted that segregation in the public schools was unconstitutional. Those four were Black, Burton, Minton, and myself."
From this quote I believe we can deduce that he thought that segregation was unconstitutional.
Source: See Bernard Schwartz, Decision: How the Supreme Court Decides Cases, page 96 (Oxford 1996).
Who sued in the brown vs the board of education case?
The Topeka NAACP argued the Brown case in the Kansas state courts.
John Scott, Charles Scott, and Charles Bledsoe were the three attorneys, while McKinley Burnett (then President of Topeka NAACP) and Lucinda Todd (NAACP secretary and one of the plaintiffs) helped organize the case.
Future US Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall, then Chief Legal Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, argued the four consolidated segregation cases (under the name Brown v. Board of Education) before the US Supreme Court.
Case Citation:
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 US 483 (1954)
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What was the important decision made by the Supreme Court in the case Brown v Board of Education?
segregation in public schools was against the constitution
Why were so many southerners unhappy with the brown vs board of education decision of 1954?
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They feared desegregation would lead to violence and chaos in some southern states.
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How did southerners resist the Brown v Board of Education decision?
some states closed their public schools to prevent integration.
Some organized the "White Citizens Council."
What is the brown vs board of ed case?
it was about a father of a daughter named linda brown that was made that his daughter had to walk a mile to get to black school when there was a white school was only seven blocks away from where they lived. he tried to enroll her into that school but the principal refused to let her join the school. so mr. brown sent a complaint to the NAACP ( national association for the advanced of colored people) and they agreed and the case went to court
all citizens have the right to public education and should have equal access to it
Why did the decision in Brown v Board of Education not end segregation?
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 US 483 (1954)
Brown v. Board of Education II, 349 US 294 (1955)
The US Supreme Court declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional in their decision for Brown v. Board of Education, (1954), but had no plan for implementing integration. The Court asked both sides to develop a strategy for dismantling the old educational infrastructure and addressing the logistics of integrating the schools.
The Court convened in April 1955 to hear arguments related to integration in Brown v. Board of Education II, 349 US 294 (1955), the planned second phase of the landmark civil rights case. In Brown II, the schools requested more time to make changes, preferring to phase in integration over an extended period of time. Civil rights activists wanted more rapid changes.
The Supreme Court attempted to forge a compromise and issued an order for US District Courts to oversee creation of racially nondiscriminatory school districts "with all deliberate speed," indicating an expectation of diligent haste, but leaving the time frame vague, open to interpretation, and more difficult to enforce.
Some school districts, including Topeka, Kansas, the city where the named case originated, responded quickly; other districts, particularly those in the South, resisted integration and were obstructionist, rather than cooperative.
The federal government under the Eisenhower administration was less than proactive about enforcing the Brown decisions on a national basis, only intervening in isolated cases (such as the Little Rock Nine). This allowed the process to extend more than a decade in some areas, until Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, legislation that finally assisted the progress of civil rights.
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What were the immediate and long term effects of brown v board of education of topeka?
Although it relived the KKK once again, it allowed black children to attend white schools and was a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Marshall was the first African American justice and spent his life fighting for equality. As a young man he had experienced discrimination first hand. He was the lawyer for Brown v Topeka and argued that separate but equal was not equal at all. He was a great man and powerful ally for equality and civil rights for all.
Who was the chief justice presiding over brown v the board of education?
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson lead the Court in 1952, when Brown v. Board of Education was first argued, but died before the justices reached a verdict. The case was re-argued in 1953 with Chief Justice Earl Warren presiding over the Court.
What was the outcome of brown v.board of education?
The Brown v. Board of Education decision declared it unconstitutional to have separate schools for black and white children as well as declaring it unconstitutional to deny black children equal educational opportunities. This was a landmark decision and turning point in the civil rights movement.
Case Citation:
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 US 483 (1954)
Which Supreme Court justice overturned school segregation in Brown v Board of Education?
No single justice declared segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education, (1954); all nine justices overturned the "separate but equal" precedent set in Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896), by voting unanimously.
Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the opinion of the Court in that case, a safe bet for a test answer, but don't be mislead into thinking he overturned any racial segregation laws unilaterally (all by himself).
What did the brown vs board of education say?
It ruled that segregation in schools is unconstitutional.
Was there a dissenting opinions in the brown v board case?
Segregation education is inherently unequal.
Who was the African-American attorney who won the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education?
The Lead Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund who argued for the petitioners and won Brown v. Board of Education, (1954) was future US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Marshall argued 32 civil rights cases before the Supreme Court and won 29 of them before being appointed as a justice in 1967.
Thurgood Marshall was not the only African-American NAACP attorney working the consolidated cases of Brown v. Board of Education, however. Some of the other well-known attorneys included Spottswood Robinson, Oliver W. Hill, Robert L. Carter, Constance Baker Motley, etc.
Case Citation:
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 US 483 (1954)
What Amendment did Brown v. Board of Education invoke?
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
The Fourteenth Amendment, specifically the Equal Protection Clause
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What did the supreme court rule in 1954 in the case of Brown v Board of Education?
Integration of African American students into traditionally all-white schools (Go Apex Kids;)
What year was the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case determined?
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation in schools is illegal. States could not establish separate schools for black and white students because "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." This landmark decision occurred in May 1954.
How did Virginia respond to the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
The General Assembly used their courts and laws to adopt a policy of "Massive Resistance" and closed many schools in order to keep them from desegregating.
What is the connection between the plessy v Ferguson case and the brown v board of education case?
Plessy v. Ferguson ruled in 1896 that separate, but "equal" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional (but they ended up not being "equal" at all). Brown v. Board of Education overturned this ruling, stating that separate but "equal" schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional.
