IWBAT analyze court cases involving

segregation

Homer Plessy

Homer Plessy

7/8 White 1/8 African Bought a first class ticket

and sat in the whites only car

Was arrested for breaking the law

Plessy v. Ferguson1896

Separate but Equal is legal

Brown v. Board of Education1954

“Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."

Case Name Facts Decision

Briggs v Elliott [South Carolina], Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

[Kansas], Gebhart v. Belton [Delaware]; Davis v. School Board of Prince Edward

County [Virginia]; Bolling v. Sharpe [District of Columbia].

What do you think school would be like if separate but equal were still in place?

How does change like this compare to violent change?