Brown v' Board of Education

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The Civil Rights Movement

• Brown v. Board of Education

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Background Information

• Plessy v. Fergeson (1896)- Separate but equal
• Eisenhower Administrations View on Civil Rights

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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

• Who NAACP, Kansas school district
• What Desegregation
• Why Black schools unequal

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Brown v. Board Heroes

• Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) NAACP Chief
  Counsel
• Oliver Hill (1907-2007) Virginian civil rights
  activist.

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Biography of Thurgood Marshall
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Biography of Oliver Hill
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The Supreme Courts Decision in Brown v. Board

• Warren Chief Justice of Supreme Court
• Plessy v. Ferguson invalidated
• Impact on the Civil Rights Movement

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Virginias Response

• Henry Byrd-Massive Resistance Movement (1956)
• Davis vs. Prince Edward County

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Legacy of Brown v. Board Today

• Have schools desegregated since Brown?
• Statistics (1954-2007)
• Busing