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Segregation: Legalized Discrimination Brown v. Board of Education Little Rock 9

EQ: What effect did Brown v The Board of Education have on segregation in the Southern States and African American Society?

Law at the Time: The Jim Crow Laws Civil War Abolished Slavery but didn’t end legal Discrimination based on Race 1868 14th Amendment Gave People of Color Equal Rights Under the Law 1870 15th Amendment granted POC the legal right to vote 1890’s Jim Crow Laws enacted on State and Local level -are the foundation of legalized Segregation Mostly a southern occurrence, but discrimination still happened up North Separate Schools, Hospitals, Public Facilities, Transportation, Beaches, cemeteries, etc

Plessy v. Ferguson Regarded as one of the Worst Supreme Court Rulings In 1896 Southern Jim Crow Laws are challenged on the National Stage Case was over seating in Railway Cars in Louisiana ( Was a blow to anti-segregationist Courts upheld that racial segregation was legal if it was equal This was the start of the Doctrine of Separate but Equal that lasted until start of Civil Rights Movement Homer Plessy v Judge Ferguson Regarded as one of the Worst Supreme Court Rulings

Brown v. Board of Education May 17, 1954 Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 13 Parents filed Lawsuit with NAACP Was actually a combined ruling of five cases with same merits from different states that started in 1952 Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson Court Ruled that Separate But Equal had no place in public education because segregated schools are inherently unequal De Jure Segregation officially ruled a violation of 14th Amendment Paved way for Desegregation & Integration and the Civil Rights Movement

The Little Rock Nine Even though court mandated, States were still very hesitant and slow to desegregate –Had to be forced by Feds NAACP started planning integration in Little Rock, Arkansas for Sept. 1957 Nine Students Volunteered Governor Orval Faubus resisted Federal Mandate to Integrate Little Rock Central High School Brought in Arkansas National Guard Troops to block students- it worked Emergency Court Ruling on day before school Sept. 3, 1957, said Students could Proceed. Blocked on Sept. 4 First Day of School On Sept. 20 President Eisenhower used 101st Airborne to remove National Guard Sept 25th Students finally attend full day 1958-59 School Year Cancelled By Faubus to prevent further Integration

September 1957 Diary Entry You are to write a one page diary entry of how you feel about the volatile situation at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. You may write from any perspective you choose, a white student, a student of color, a parent of either side, an administrator, a National Guard Soldier, a 101st Airborne Soldier, or a bystander watching from the sidelines either in Arkansas or another state. Be sure to include what emotions you may be having over the situation, how you feel about the issue of desegregation and integration and the changing of a way of life. You may even include your hopes for the future or if you think it will work out or if it was a mistake.