Progress In Education

Question 1

What was Brown v topeka case

Answer 1

• The NAACP trying to stop desegregation in education

- in 1952 NAACP bundled all fuve school desegregation cases together and took them to the supreme court.

Question 2

What did the NAACP lawyers argue in brown vs topeka

Answer 2

• seperate was not equal in education becuase it made black children feel inferior breaking the 14th ammendment

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Question 3

How did the death of the judge help the NACCP win

Answer 3

A pro segregation judge died and was replaced by earl warren who was not pro segregation

Question 4

What was the ruling of brown vs topeka

Answer 4

• on the 17th of may 1954 the supreme court ruked that life had changed since the plessy ruling. A good education was vital to progress. Segregated education made black children feel inferior so was unconstittutional. Seperate but equal had no place in education and schools had to desegreagte

Question 5

What happend in brown vs topeka 2 in 1955

Answer 5

Desegregation should be carried out with all deliberate speed.

Question 6

How did brown vs topeka make changes in the south

Answer 6

• southern border states desegregated schools in the years following it.
• by the end of 1957 723 school distracts had desegregated.

Question 7

What happend after brown vs topeka in the deep south

Answer 7

• black children in ‘white schools’ were thretaned and faced violence.
• NAACP members or anyone who spoke up for integration were also targets.
• many school boards said they were making plans but did nothing.

– govners of some states did not accept desegregation such as kansas.

• the white citerzens council (WCC) was set up in july 1954 in indianola misssisipi and aimed to preserve segregation and used extreme violence
• KKK memership grew
• protets outside schools

Question 8

Long term consqeuqences of brow ruling

Answer 8

• white hostikity meant civil rights groups members fell ( NAACP fell from 130,000 in 1955 to 80,000 in 1957)
• the south did sesegregate but desegregation was patchy and slow. By 1960 five deep south states were still fully segregated

Question 9

What was little rock

Answer 9

Nine students were chosen to go to little rock

The govner of arkansas, orbal faubus, sent 250 state troops to surround the school stopping the black students going in.

Question 10

What was eisenhowers presidential order

Answer 10

• ordered the state troops at little rock to be removed.

- federilised the state troops