Segregation

[Tom Earp]

Brown vs Wade, 50 years ago!

Does anyone Remember it and what it ment?

Where did it happen?

[bluz4]

Do you mean Brown v. Board of Education? It was in Topeka, Kansas. I was not alive obviously, but the paper I work at is doing a series on it called "The Great Divide."

[mullet81]

Originally posted by Tom Earp
Brown vs Wade, 50 years ago!

Does anyone Remember it and what it ment?

Where did it happen?

Brown v. Wade.... hmm wasn't that the one where The Court said you could have an abortion but not in a segregated school jk

Brown v. Board of Education is a landmark case in which the Supreme court ruled that "seperate but equal" for black and white children was unconstitutional.

Unfortunately we haven't progressed very far from the segregated days...

[PlymouthDZ]

On May 17, 1954, in the case of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, the U.S. Supreme Court ended federally sanctioned racial segregation in the public schools by ruling unanimously that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." A groundbreaking case, Brown not only overturned the precedent of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which had declared "separate but equal facilities" constitutional, but also provided the legal foundation of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Although widely perceived as a revolutionary decision, Brown was in fact the culmination of changes both in the Court and in the strategies of the Civil Rights Movement.

The Supreme Court had become more liberal in the years since it decided Plessy, largely due to appointments by Democratic Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Though still all-white, the Court had issued decisions in the 1930s and 1940s that rendered racial separation illegal in certain situations.

Now consolidated under the name Brown v. Board of Education, the five cases came before the Supreme Court in December, 1952. The lead attorney on the case, Thurgood Marshall, and his colleagues wrote that states had no valid reason to impose segregation, that racial separation — no matter how equal the facilities — caused psychological damage to black children, and that "restrictions or distinctions based upon race or color" violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The opinion, written by Warren and read on May 17, 1954, was short and straightforward. It echoed Marshall's expert witnesses, stating that for African American schoolchildren, segregation "generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely to ever be undone." The decision went on to say that segregation had no valid purpose, was imposed to give blacks lower status, and was therefore unconstitutional based on the Fourteenth Amendment.


from one of my Civil Rights lesson plans.. and
The Congress Of Racial Equality

[starang21]

hell naw...brown vs. wade?

lolololololololololol

[hoosier]

All of the local media are having an orgy of news about the 50th anniversary, and I've read everything about it published in the Atlanta newspaper, and in the local alt. weekly.

I'm thinking about a letter to the editor or submitting an op-ed piece:

It gripes me that in about ten pages of local coverage, never once has it mentioned that the school board members, the sherrifs, the state senators, the state reps, the Governor, the US Senators and
Representatives from GA - all these elected officials who kept their well-polished shoes on the necks of the black people - were Democrats.

The US Supreme Court - totally Democrats appt. by Roosevelt and Truman - considered and initially rejected the Brown vs Board of Educ. case. It got reconsidered, after the Chief Justice had died, and Eisenhower appt. Earl Warren, a Republican, and became the law of the land. Thanks to the Republican Chief Justice.

I feel they deserve a little credit.

Perhaps, Tom, you could find out: Were the Topeka School Board members at the time Democrats?

[TheEpitome1920]

I was not alive at the time but I've noticed a lot of articles that talk about the lack of change in the public school system. It seems, in my opinion, that what people were working towards was not necessarily integration but the quality of the education. Students should be able to go to schools that have the same resources for success regardless of their racial makeup.

[Tom Earp]

OOOOPS

Yes sir, Brown vs Board of Education.


Kansas has been been a Repbulican state for years except Wyandotte County, Kansas City Ks.

President Bush, ands Hopefull John Kerrywill both be here for the ceremonies.

The school has been turned into a museum.

[Honeykiss1974]

Originally posted by mullet81
Brown v. Wade.... hmm wasn't that the one where The Court said you could have an abortion but not in a segregated school jk

HAHAHAHAHA.........

Twas it not for work, I would have gone to Topeka today. I would have liked to hear both Bush and/or Kerry speak.

Bill Clinton will be here later on in the week as well (I think) for a Brown vs. BOE event too..