1. Read pages 686 – 687 and the handout, “Nullifying the Separate but Equal Principle Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 1954” answering …
(1) Textbook: what is the goal of the NAACP?
(2) Textbook: what were the separate rulings by the Supreme Court in these different court cases?
(3) Handout: What was the common feature to all four cases combined into the “Brown Case?”
(4) Handout: Instead of looking at the legality of segregation in accordance to the Constitution, the Warren Court utilizes psychology. Why?

2. Warren Court 1953 - 1969 Overturns …
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Segregation illegal in schools, as the “separate but equal” principle is unconstitutional.
Overturns …
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- Which had established the idea of “separate but equal” creating the opportunity for “Jim Crow” laws.
Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

3. Public School Segregation
Maier, Inventing America;

4. African-American Civil Rights Movement, 1954-68
Social Justice:
* 1954: Brown v. Board of Education
* 1955: Montgomery Bus Boycott
* 1957: Little Rock High School Case
* 1963: The March on Washington
* Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights:
* 1964: Freedom Summer
* 1965: The Selma
Campaign
* The Voting Rights Act of
1965

5. Major Accomplishments of the Civil Rights Era within the area of …
[1] Racial Integration (Desegregation) and Racial Equality
[2] Voting Rights Protections
[3] Encouraging Financial Equal Opportunity

11. School Desegregation
Virtually no schools in the South segregated their schools in the first years following the Brown decision.
In 1957, Governor Orval Faubus defied a federal court order to admit nine African American students

12. “Little Rock Nine (1957) …”

13. Rosa Parks (1955) Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955 – 1956)
Refuses to give up her seat
Montgomery Bus
Boycott (1955 – 1956)
Forces city of Montgomery,
Alabama to end bus segregation