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Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) - Coggle Diagram
Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)
what?
name given to 5 separate cases -> issue of segregation in public schools
cases before 1952 -> under the name Brown v. Board of Education
ended 'Separate, but equal,' desegregated public schools (America)
what is it? a landmark Supreme Court case.
when?
May 17 1954
why?
to end racial segregation in public schools
where?
in America's public schools
extra
13th Amendment (1865) -> ratified -> put end to slavery
14th Amendment (1868) -> strengthened legal rights -> newly freed slaves
15th Amendment (1870) -> prohibiting states -> denying the right to vote due to race
who?
Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Legal Defense + Education Fund -> handled the cases
NAACP= National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Oliver L. Brown= lead plaintiff in the Kansas class action suit + namesake of the court decision