Brown Versus Board of Education
Presented By Denise and TK
In Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896), the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a Louisiana law, The Separate Car Act of 1890 (Act 111), requiring African-Americans and Caucasians to travel in separate railroad cars was constitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause, as long as the accommodations provided for the African-Americans were equal to those provided for Whites.
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Social Implications
-Overturned precedent of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
-Relieves institutional racism -“Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal” -The court’s decision on Brown case was also intended to end the behavior of the human tendencies to stereotype people by ethnic, religious, physical, or cultural characteristics. -Reaffirmed the sovereign power of the American people |
Doll Study by Kenneth & Mamie Clark
They presented children as young as the age of three with white and brown dolls. They observed that overall the children rejected the brown dolls when they were asked to pick which they wanted to play with, which they thought were a nice color, and which they liked the best. |
-Hereditarianism ideas played a major role
-Brown v. Board of Education was not accepted by everyone and continue to be debated on -Created educational opportunities for African Americans -Brown case served as catalyst for modern civil rights movement |
“In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right that must be made available on equal terms.”
Chief Justice Earl Warren, Brown v. Board of Education (1954) |