brown v topeka# Flashcards
what did Oliver Brown want?
he wanted his 8 year old daughter to be able to attend the all white school which was very near to where she lived rather than travelling miles to the black school.
who was the NAACP’s lawyer for the case?
Thurgood Marshall, who aimed to prove that the segregated schools were not equal and went aggainst the 14th amendment that gave black people all rights of citizenship.
how did Thurgood Marshall go about proving the schools were not equal?
he called on psychology experts to prove that segregated facilities were damaging to a childs development.
who did president Eisenhower appoint as supreme court judge?
Earl Warren - hoping that he would resist the civil rights campaign.
what was the Brown case verdict?
he ruled segregated schools to be unequal and going against the constitution on 17th May 1954
what was the problem with the verdict?
there was no date set for when schools had to be desegregated by
why did the brown case go back to court?
1955 - it was asked that more immediate action took place however still no date was set, which led to serious and continuous restraint from some southern states.
what was Eisenhower’s role?
- he wasnt completely opposed to civil rights but thoufht the change should be gradual
- he disliked federal intrusion into state government
- his silence on the Brown case encouraged huge ressistance.
- the southern manifesto in 1956 condemmed the Brown rulling and was signed by 101 memebers of congress which again increased ressistance.
what possitves came out of the rulling?
- it was the begining of major challenge agaisnt jim crow laws.
- a Chicago defender of the rulling described it as more important to our democray than the atom/hydrogen bomb
limitations of the verdict?
no date was given so wasn’t a total victory
massive ressitance
only produced de jure change no de facto change.
