Progress In Education Flashcards
(55 cards)
Ahat were schoold like in the 1950s?
Segregated
What was something which governers would do to stop segregation?
Upgrade black schools
Who was the govorner of South Carolina?
James Byrnes
What did James Byrnes do to stop desegregation?
He spent over $100 million upgrading Black schools rather then allowing black students to go to white schools
Where was Linda Brown from?
Topeka Kansas
Why was special about Linda Browns journey to school?
She had to pass an white school to get to her black school
When did Brown’s parents loose a court case?
About what?
Why did they loose?
1951 (with 12 other parents)
Arguing that there daughter shoudk be abke to got to the closer white school
Plessy said that rhe schoold were seperate but equal
What was the court case called?
About education
Brown v. The board of Education of Topeka Kansas
Or
Brown v. Topeka
How did the NAACP layers argue the brown case?
Segregated schools wern’t equal becasue it made black students feel inferior
The 14th Amendment was being brocken as black children felt unequal
What was the situation in the brown case by December 1952?
They hadn’t made a ruling het and called for a re-trial
Meanwhile one of the pro-segregation judges died and was replaced by a pro-desegregation judge
What was the name of the pro desegregation judge that replaced a pro-segregation judge?
Earl Warren
When was the Brown v. Topeka case finished?
May 1954
In favor of Brown
They said that “seperate but equal” has no place nowerdays
They also beat Plessy
What was 1 oversite (or intentional mistake) with the Brown v. Topeka case?
In 1954 the Supreme Court set no time scale on desegregation
What happened in May 1955 (in Brown v. Topeka)?
A second Supreme Court case said that desegregation should be carried out with “deliberate speed”
This was called Brown II
What was the Second Supreme Court case called?
Brown II
What happened to Linda Brown?
She was no too old to go to the original primary school
What was the immediate significance of Brown v Topeka?
It reversed Plessy (beat) and therefore sparked more desegregation campaigns - many of which went on the win legal victories -
How long did it take DC and the boarder states to desegregate schools?
In the years immediatly following the court ruling
By the end of the 1957 school year how many school districts had desegregated?
(In the north and boarder states (still part of the south)
723
What were border states?
Southern States that were nearest North
What did the day of the Brown decision bedome known as?
Black Monday
What was the deep south’s reaction to the Brown v Topeka case?
Black children wanting to go to intergrated schoold recived abuse, threats and violence (as were their families).
NAACP members and also other pro intergrated people were also abused…
What happened to desegregate schools in the deep south after Brown v Topeka
Many schools said they wre making plans to desegregate but did nothing
Some governers didn’t accept desegregation
Some governers made emotional pledges to keep segregation
A governer demanded “massive resistance” and said he would close schools trying to segregate
WCC was set up
KKK memberships grew
Many people protested outside schools - it threatened and intimidated black people trying to go to school
It made Black American’s lives more dangerous
How may legaly enforcing intergration be harmful for bakck students?
Theynwere unwanted and were unliky to get a good education from white teachers rather than black students in a segregated school
