Fighting for an Equal Education

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Fighting for an Equal Education

• Chapter 25 Section 2

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Words to Know

• Appeal To ask a higher court to review the
  decision of a lower court
• Desegregate To end segregation, or separation of
  the races

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NAACP

• National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People
• Created-1935
• Working to end segregation
• Equal treatment
• 50s fought to integrate schools
• Led by Thurgood Marshall

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Schools

• Southern States
• White and A.A. children different schools
• Lawmakers said schools were equal

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Unequal

• A.A.
• walk miles to school
• Share books
• Poorly trained teachers
• Overcrowded
• White
• Lived closer to schools
• Had their own book
• Better trained teachers
• Smaller classes

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Chart pg. 470

• What is the year of the map?
• Which did not allow segregation?
• What part of the country was it the law to have
  segregation?
• What states allowed segregation?
• What did Maine have for a law?

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Parents

• 1950-Oliver Brown
• Daughter-Linda
• Worried about Linda and the walk to school
• White school close
• Tried to enroll
• School refused
• Brown went to NAACP
• Sued Board of Education in Topeka, KS

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Court Ruling

• Court ruled against Brown and NAACP
• Supreme court ruled separate but equal
• Appealed to U.S. Supreme Court

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Supreme Court

• Thurgood Marshall
• Lawyer who argued the case for A.A. and NAACP
• Said separate but equal was impossible
• Court agreed

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May 1954

• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
• Decision said that in public schools separate
  but equal has no place
• Public schools must desegregate

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ASAP

• Supreme Court ordered all schools to desegregate
  ASAP
• Most did without issue
• Some places, political leaders and citizens tried
  to stop it

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Little Rock

• 1957, Little Rock, AR
• Gov. Orval Faubus
• Did not want to integrate
• National Guard called to stop it
• 2nd day of school
• 9 A.A. students went to school
• Little Rock 9
• Crowds yelled names at them
• National Guard stopped them from entering
• Became National News

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Help

• Eisenhower upset
• Sent U.S. troops to Little Rock to protect
  students
• End of Sept.-students entered school
• For weeks, armed troops had to take students to
  class
• Ernest Green-1st A.A. to graduate form Central
  High

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Class Work

• Chapter 25 Section 2 Crossword