Eisenhower key events - Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 1954

Question 1

When was it handed down?

Answer 1

May 17th 1954

Question 2

What did the Warren Court state?

Answer 2

‘separate education facilities are inherently unequal’

Question 3

What did Brown assert?

Answer 3

-Brown asserted that the system if ‘separate but equal’ instead excused the inferior accommodations services and treatment of AAs rather than help

Question 4

What was the main argument?

Answer 4

-the education system was promoting segregation and the mental abilities of black children were capped due to the lack of resources and opportunities and the poor quality of education offered by the system

Question 5

What did Brown deliver at Court on May 14th 1954?

Answer 5

-he delivered the opinion of the Court stating ‘we conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.’

Question 6

What was the short term negative impacts?

Answer 6

-very slow changes to start off with (took a year for the Court to issue an order enforcing the decision)
-didn’t help students immediately after the case

Question 7

What was the short term positive impact?

Answer 7

-sense of more equality even though it wasn’t evident

Question 8

What were the long term positive impacts?

Answer 8

-disbanded the segregation presented by the ‘Separate but equal’ ideology which allowed many people to advance their rights->became a catalyst for the civil rights movement

Question 9

What was the long term negative impact?

Answer 9

-there are still hundreds of cases of desegregation open to the court and also cases of racism in schools