1. Brown vs. Board of Education By: Darrian B. & Lysette S.

2. Esther Brown ❏ A married, white, Catholic woman ❏ Crusader for equal educational opportunities in Kansas City. ❏ She thought that how white children had better and more schools than black children was unfair and took it to court. ❏ Was threatened by townsfolk burning a cross in her yard.

3. Brown’s Case ❏ Victorious in May 17th, 1945 ❏ The case was known as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century.

4. Robert Carter ❏ He is the father of the little girl. ❏ He joined the Thurgood Marshall’s Legal Defense Fund. ❏ Served as a Lieutenant in World War 2 where he became known to white officers as “an uppity Negro”.

5. Oliver Brown ❏ Esther Brown’s Husband. ❏ He got fired from his job because of his wife’s court case.

6. Victory! ❏ Mrs. Brown was victorious in her case on May 17th, 1945. ❏ They unanimously agreed: “Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of law; for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the Negro group.”

7. Victory! ❏ “A sense of inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learn. Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to retard the educational and mental development of Negro children and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racially integrated school system.”

8. ❏ Video on the Court Case

9. Works Cited ❏ PBS. PBS. Web. 5 Nov. 2015. ❏ "Brown v Board of Education of Topeka: An Account." Brown v Board of Education of Topeka: An Account. Web. 5 Nov. 2015. ❏ "Brown v. Board at Fifty: “With an Even Hand”Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas." Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Web. 5 Nov. 2015.

10. Images ❏ Esther Brown Home of Brown, Kansas City, Courtesy of the Photographer ❏ Robert Carter Unknown, Kansas City, ❏ Oliver Brown Unknown, Kansas City Cuortesy of the Photographer ❏ The Court’s Decision and Appeal Court’s Panel, Kansas City, Courtesy of the Photographer

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