Monday, May 19, 2014

Brown v. Board of Education - Jessica Poldrugo


- Landmark United States Supreme Court case
- Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
- Paved way for integration and was a major victory for the civil rights movement
- The Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
- name given to 5 separate cases
- main argument was that segregated schools were overall unequal
- it was recorded that segregated schools psychologically scarred black children by making them feel inferior to white children.

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