Ending School Segregation

The ruling of Plessy v Ferguson was now 100 years old. This is the law that said the races could be seperated as long as things were (a)   . Like schools, bathrroms and pools.

After 100 years the African-America schools were falling apart. The kids were not getting an equal education. Mostly because the classrooms were so (a)   .

Most African-American schools had few books, maps or library books. But to not have a (a)   for students was one of the last straws to start a legal trial.

(That is him in the picture)

Even Universities were segregated. At the University of Oklahoma, Mr (a)   ( 1 word) faced constant rules that kept him spereate from the other students.

By 1953 most Southern states still had segregated schools. How many states were still segregated?

(a)  

How many schools or school systems were suing for having segregated schools?

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One of the best lawyers in the country, Marshall, was hired by the _ _ _ _ _ (5 letters) to fight the case in the Supreme Court.

(a)  

Marshall stated that segregating people made the suggestion that one group was (a)   than the other.

This is not in the reading you have to remember or go look it up.

The other lawyer said that states have the right to educate their students any way that they want. He said this because the _________ amendement allows states to make their own laws and govern themselves.

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The schools won the case. The famous quote that comes out of the ruling is that "Separate educational facilities are (a)   [by nature] unequal.