By: Alan Smith, Faith Seamon, Julia Walker, and Rodavion Chapple.

 “What methods did the brown family use to convince the supreme court that school segregation was unfair?”  “What were the effects after the disagreements between the brown family and the board of education?”  What were the reasons that led up to the Lawsuit?”

 Schools back during the civil rights movement were not fair.  For every $150 spent on white kid schools, only $50 were spent on Black kid schools.  The schools for African Americans were not as nice as the schools white kids. They had overcrowded classrooms and poorer educators.  African American children had long and uncomfortable trips to school each day.

 Right before Linda Brown began 3 rd grade, her father received a flyer that said to register his daughter for summer school. But it was the all white school 7 blocks down from the browns home. Though brown knew that it was meant for the white parents only, he tried to enroll Linda. But she was refused. Brown was angry and decided to go to the NAACP for help.

The NAACP lawyers names were Jack Greenburg and Robert Carter. The Brown family used children to testify about their long and uncomfortable trips to school. Lawyers argued about how schools for African American kids were not as nice as schools for white children. Some schools for African-Americans didn’t have gymnasiums and were not as big.

 African Americans were unable to eat in the same restaurants, drink from the same water fountains, or even ride in the same train cars as white people.  A lot of people were against all of this segregation even some of the white people. That is why in 1951 African American people sued the board of education when it tried to segregate middle schools.

 After losing the case in the state court the NAACP decided to take the case all the way up to the United States Supreme court. They appealed to the Supreme Court on October 1,1951.  In 1952 the NAACP had 3 cases of school segregation at the Supreme Court. After listening to the cases the Justices could not decide.

 In 1953 the judges scheduled to hear the cases a second time, but by the 2 more cases were added these 5 cases were known as Brown vs. the board of education.  After 3 years, the case ended on May 17 th, 1954 with the court favoring the Brown family and all the other African American families that opposed the board of education.

After the Brown family won the case it became a law that schools couldn’t be segregated anymore. This was one of the big laws that changed segregation in the United States. This is one of the major things that the youth did during the civil rights movement.

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