Essay Due Friday August 19th Should the two schools in Cleveland Mississippi be forced to integrate Due at beginning of class No more than 2 pages Typed MLA format Must include rough draft stapled behind final draft ID: 543655
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Segregation and SchoolsSlide2
Essay Due Friday, August 19th
Should the two schools in Cleveland, Mississippi, be forced to integrate?
Due at beginning of class
No more than 2 pages
Typed
MLA format
Must include rough draft stapled behind final draft
Only use sources provided
Graded using CWRA Rubric Slide3
Birth of the Jim Crow Laws
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Plessy was used by those seeking equal rights to make segregation illegal
Segregation?
Segregation: Separation of people by color
Surprisingly, Plessy lost and segregation by skin color was made legal in the United StatesSlide4
Homer Plessy
1/8
th
“black”Slide5
Segregation and Jim CrowSlide6
Jim Crow Laws
(examples are tip of the iceberg)
Schools
Churches
Restaurants
Beaches
Parks
Checkers
Pools
Billiards
Salutations
Hotels
Auto repair
Marriage
Theaters
Hospitals
Hearses
Telephone booths
Voting Rights
Sundown TownsSlide7
Freedom Fighters vs. Jim Crow
How to kill Jim Crow Laws?
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) put together an “army of lawyers”
US Constitution and Declaration of Independence are promises of freedom for all
In 1954, Thurgood Marshall won a controversial court case called Brown vs Board of Education (Topeka, Kansas)
Ruled unconstitutional for schools to be segregated by color
Ordered all schools to desegregate Slide8
Brown vs. Board of Education
Victory in the courts proved that US laws supported freedom and kept promise of America
Triggered the next phase of Civil Rights Movement
Did nothing to force desegregation
Nothing happened for years and years
Busing moved white students to black schools and black schools to white schools
Still did not do much
Schools are
more
segregated
now than in the
late 1960s when new laws
that desegregated schools were
enforced