1. Before the Case 2. Key People 3. The Outcome/After Effects 4. Analyze/Create

  13 th – 15 th Amendments  Purpose: › To Abolish Slavery › Provide Equal Rights for All Citizens › Ensure that Black Men Can Vote

 1896: Supreme Court Case › A challenge to equal rights and freedoms  Outcome: › Establishes “separate but equal” in the U.S.

 Two patients come to a doctor with a headache. The doctor determines that one patient has a brain tumor and the other patient has a run-of-the mill headache. What would the doctor have to do to treat these two patients equally?

 Years: 1900 – 1920’s  Attention turned to new immigrants › Worried about taking jobs and resources

 1930’s – 1950’s › U.S. was worried about other events  Great Depression, WWII, & Start of Cold War  Outcome: › Very little is done in terms of Civil Rights

 Thurgood Marshall › Lead Attorney for Brown & Key NAACP supporter › Later a Supreme Court Justice (First African American)

 Earl Warren › Chief Justice of Supreme Court, during the case › Believed the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place in education

Brown v. Board of Education Grouped Together 5 Similar Cases Challenged Separate But Equal & Segregation in Schools

 Outcome: › Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” educational facilities were unequal › Desegregation should take place “with all deliberate speed” (Ruled one year later)

 Sets up legal and physical fights for years to come. › Begins the process of desegregation across the south  Those in the South felt it unconstitutional  Slow or Fast Process???

 Design a Newspaper Headline/Article › Must Haves:  A Name for your Newspaper  The Words: Brown v. Board of Education  Picture Describing the Case  3-4 Sentences Outlining the Decision  Work in Partners (Groups of 2’s)