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Go to the Internet site http://www.digisys.net/users/hootie/brown/ and explore the site to answer the questions below.

  1.           weren't allowed to go to                children's schools.
  2. The Supreme Court case                                is one of the somberest chapters in the pages of                history.
  3. What percentage of schools had Negro students attending in 1964?                                     
  4. The doctrine of "separate but equal" was challenged in what year?                                       
  5. The local chapter of NAACP and a group of thirteen parents filed a class action suit against the Board of education of Topeka Schools because                                                                                                                                                                                                
  6. Segregated schools are                  and cannot be made                , and hence they are deprived of the                  protection of the laws.
  7. Who was the distinguished lawyer that specialized in civil rights cases and was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1939?     
                                                                                                                                                                                                      
  8. Marshall was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson as the first black member of the Supreme Court in what year?
                                                                                                                                                   
  9. Why did President Dwight D. Eisenhower send National Guard troops to Little Rock High in 1957?                                
                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                               
  10. 10. Why did Linda Brown have to ride the bus five miles to school each day?_______________________________________________________________________________________.
  11. Who said "I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."?
                                                                                                                                                           
  12. Why do you think it took so long for Black students to be integrated into the public school system?                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                                

 

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