Brown vs the Board of Education

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

• allow children to work.
• to pay black people less than white people.
• to return a slave.
• to segregate schools.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Sweatt v. Painter
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Mendez v. Kirby ISD

What are Jim Crow Laws?

• Laws that placed freedom limitations on nonwhite people
• Laws that made all people work together towards a common goal

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Keeping things or people Separate

• prejudice

• union

• confederate

• segregation

African Americans were kept apart from other Americans in many public places, such as schools, hotels, and restaurants. This is called ______.

• a boycott
• civil rights
• a debate
• segregation

Thurgood Marshall used the U.S. Constitution to protect the __________ of African Americans.

• segregation

• civil rights

• authority

• citizens

Marshall took the case "Brown vs. the Board of Education" to the Supreme Court and won. What were the results of this success?

• It gave Linda Brown the freedom to attend the school close to her home.
• It showed that "separate but equal" was not truly equal.
• It ended all segregation in public schools.
• All answers are correct.

What did "Brown v. Board Of Education" mean for African Americans?

• (A) The case meant the end of separating students by race in public schools.

• (B) The case required all children in the United States to attend public schools.

• (C) The case required Kansas to give black schools the same amount of money as white schools.

• (D) The case meant that separate schools could offer equal education.

________ __________ father sued the Board of Education of Topeka Kansas because she had to walk too far to go to the nearest black school.

• Susan Brown's

• Linda Brown's

• Laura Brown's

• Lisa Brown's

What year did the Brown vs the Board of Education case take place.

• 1964

• 1974

• 1954

• 1944