Brown V. Board of Education Emmaline Lamp Carl Bates Noah Wasosky Spencer Rohr

Scenario

Plessy vs. Ferguson ruled that blacks and whites should be separate, but equal.

This paved the way for Jim Crow laws.

Segregation of white and black students in schools was prevalent in the United States.

When Did This Event Occur?

Brown vs. Board of education actually covers five different court cases dealing with segregation.

The actual case of Oliver Brown vs. Board of education took place on May 17, 1954.

Definition of Terms

Segregation- Separation of whites and blacks. Equal protection clause- part of the 14 amendment that no state shall deny any person within its juristiction equal protection of laws.

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Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daHYY1d9W4s

Work cited page● "Civil Rights History." The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Web. 2 Dec. 2014.