brown vs. board of ed o hurt one’s self esteem, made to feel inferior o plessy vs. ferguson 1896 o...
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Brown vs. Board of EdOHurt one’s self esteem, made to feel inferiorOPlessy vs. Ferguson 1896O Jim Crow Laws, Standard practiceO14th AmendmentODangerous walk to schoolOLoss of tax baseOOthers were able to make it, Prepare for real
lifeOHypocritical-our fight for freedom in the world
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1954Brown Board of Education
O Self esteem-made to feel inferior
O 14th Amendment: all citizens are equal.
O All men are created equal.O Hypocritical to fight for
freedom in world and not at home
O Truman had integrated the army.
O Plessy versus Ferguson: Separate but equal.
O Tax base would leave the schools
O Others had succeeded and had little opportunities
O Prepare for the real worldO Unsafe for her to be in
school.
Chief Justice Earl Warren OpinionWe conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of
"separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others
similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are . . deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the
Fourteenth Amendment.
Unmaking BrownO 1/3 black students attend
school in places where the black population is more than 90%
O 1/2 white students attend schools that are more than 90% white.
O 1/3 of all black and Latino students attend high-poverty schools
O 1/25 white students attend high poverty schools.
Savage inequalities video
Who was the first African American to play major league baseball?
Moses Fleetwood WalkerToledo Blue Stockings 1884
Nadir Period 1890-1940
Causes• Social Darwinism: justify the
quest for wealth by subscribing to survival of the fittest as a rationale for class and racial privilege.
• Indian removal: It is o.k. to take Indian lands because they are not white
• Immigration: Chinese immigrants threatened jobs of westerns, will be excluded.
• Imperialism: Hawaii, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti cannot govern themselves.
Purchase of Manhattan 1626 for $24 worth of beads
O Did eastern Indians wear a headdress?O Why are they dressed for opposing weather conditions?O Primitive Indian vs. Civilized Dutchman.O Did Native Americans want trinkets and beads?O Steel axes, knives, metal kettles, guns, and colorful woolen
blankets.O Would native Americans give up their villages, gardens,
fields, burial ground, and gathering and hunting rights for beads?
O What is Wall Street? Why did Dutch build a wall to keep out the people that sold them the land for $24?
Nadir Period
End of the Nadir• Great migration of blacks to
Northern cities• Foreign independence
movements ex. India• WWII-Hitler effect• Civil rights movement