2.2 Brown V Topeka and its impact Flashcards
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
focuses challenging segregated education through law courts
Brown V Topeka
Brown family struggled to get their child to a school so far away when there was a white school nearby
It was ruled that segregated education had a detrimental effect on coloured children
What was an issue with the Brown decision
“To be carried out at earliest possible speed”
= no deadline
How did the doll test help NAACP win brown v topeka
shows education was unequal and that coloured kids are taught to be inferior
made people sympathetic of black children
Positive effects of Brown V Topeka
Segregation disallowed
Victory for NAACP
First Civil Rights victory
Negative effects of Brown V Topeka
Violent backlash
no deadline for when decisions will be carried out
influential white people tried to resist
Resists to the Brown decision
White Citizens council
Southern Manifesto - rejecting brown decision
South passed 450 laws to prevent decision
Importance of Brown V Topeka
Impact was slow
Integration in deep south was slow
Black people scared to integrate due to racism
Victory increased awareness for Civil Rights
White citizens council
organised protests and put pressure on government to resist brown decision
Ku Klux Klan
encouraged discrimination and attacked black people
What did Emmet till do
Came from the north so didn’t recognise racism well
Wolf-whistled at lady as a dare
What happened to emmet till
Body found in river
Beaten brutally to the point where his face was unrecognisable and shot in the head
What happened to murderers
trial or roy and companions reported across america
americans angered by lack of justice
this acted as a catalyst for civil rights movement
3 consequences of Brown V Topeka
Desegregation of schools
Increased violence
Accelerated civil rights movement
