2. Brown vs. Board of Education
• Facts :
. This was one of the many cases dealing with segregation in
1954.
This challenged the constitutionality of racial segregation in
public schools.
Grounded the work of the NAACP, and helped to end
segregation.
• How Did It Impact Society?
Before the Supreme Court decision, black & white children
went to separate schools. They had separate bathrooms and
water fountains, that only certain races could drink from.
Blacks had many restrictions that white people didn’t have

3. Is s u e s o f t h e C a s e
• HOW IT ALL STARTED: Linda Brown, an eight-year-old
African-American girl, had been denied permission to
attend an elementary school only five blocks from her home
in Topeka, Kansas. School officials refused to register her at
the nearby school, assigning her instead to a school for
nonwhite students. Separate elementary schools for whites
and nonwhites were maintained by the Board of Education.
Her parents filed a lawsuit to make the schools admit her to
the nearby school for white students.
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Brown's attorneys argued that the operation of separate
schools, based on race, was harmful to African-American
children. Extensive testimony was provided to support the
contention that legal segregation resulted in both
fundamentally unequal education and low self-esteem
among minority students.

4. How it Affected Society
Many whites did not believe in segregation.
They did not want blacks going to their
school.
The president had to send in military troops to
escort the little black kids to the white
schools to make sure nothing happened to
them.
Black children were just happy to go to school
but were terrified of the white kids hurting
them.

5. Myth or Fact?
• Myth
Brown vs. Board of Education was the first legal challenge to
racially segregated schools in the United States
• Truth
African American parents began to challenge racial
segregation in public education as early as 1849 in the case of
Roberts v. City of Boston, Massachusetts. Kansas was the site
of eleven such cases spanning from 1881 to 1949.
• Myth
The only plaintiff in the Brown case was Oliver Brown on
behalf of his daughter.
• Truth
In 1952, Brown vs. Board was brought before the U.S.
Supreme Court as a combination of five cases from various
parts of the country, representing nearly 200 plaintiffs.

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7. WORKS CITED:
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http://www.will.uiuc.edu/community/beyondbrown/brownfacts.htm
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