HEY IT'S JEREMIAH AND RIGHT NOW WE ARE GOING
TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT FOR KIDS AND
TODAY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A HISTORIC CASE
IN THE U.S. SUPREME COURT BROWN VERSUS BOARD
OF EDUCATION.
GETTING A GOOD EDUCATION IS VERY IMPORTANT
AND PEOPLE TRAVEL TO TO ATTEND SCHOOL HERE
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FROM AROUND
THE WORLD.
FROM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS TO UNIVERSITIES YOU
WILL SEE A DIVERSE GROUP OF PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT
NATIONALITIES FILLING UP CLASSROOMS BUT IT
WASN'T ALWAYS LIKE THAT HERE IN THE UNITED
STATES.
ACTUALLY UP UNTIL 1954 CLASSROOM WERE QUITE
DIFFERENT NOT ALLOWING AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS
TO ATTEND SCHOOL WITH WHITE STUDENTS THERE
TOO.
NOW I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT THAT DEFINITELY
DOESN'T SOUND FAIR TO ME.
BUT THIS WAS ALLOWED BECAUSE OF A PREVIOUS
COURT CASE IN 1896 THAT SAID SEGREGATION WAS
OKAY, WHICH MEANT THAT SCHOOLS COULD KEEP
WHITE AND AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS SEPARATE.
NOW THERE IS AN ORGANIZATION THAT STILL EXISTS
TODAY CALLED THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR
THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE ALSO KNOWN
AS THE NAACP.
THIS ORGANIZATION STARTED TO FIGHT BACK WITH
SMALL EFFORTS IN THE 1930S BY FIGHTING IN
COURTS AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT ALLOWED SEGREGATION
IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
HAVING SUCCESS ON A LOCAL AND STATE LEVEL
THEY TOOK THEIR FIGHT ONE STEP HIGHER.
THE NAACP STOOD UP TO FIGHT THIS UNFAIR TREATMENT
IN THE HIGHEST COURT OF THE LAND , THE UNITED
STATES SUPREME COURT.
THEY HAD THEIR COUNSEL THURGOOD MARSHALL ARGUE
THE CASE IN FRONT OF THE SUPREME COURT TO
STOP LAWS THAT MADE AFRICAN AMERICANS HAVE
TO BE SEPARATE IN CLASSROOMS FROM WHITE STUDENTS.
A FUN FACT ABOUT THURGOOD MARSHALL IS LATER
HE WOULD BECOME THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ON THE UNITED STATES
SUPREME COURT IN US HISTORY.
THAT IS WHEN ON MAY 17TH 1954 THE SUPREME
COURT HANDED DOWN ITS DECISION TO STRIKE DOWN
SEGREGATION IN SCHOOLS.
WITH THEIR DECISION THIS FORCED SCHOOLS WHO
KEPT AFRICAN-AMERICANS SEPARATE FROM WHITES
TO TO ALLOW INTEGRATION.
WHAT INTEGRATION MEANS IS THEY HAD TO MAKE
A WAY TO INTEGRATE MEANING TO BRING AFRICAN-AMERICANS
BACK INTO THE SAME CLASSROOM MIXED WITH WHITE
STUDENTS.
THE SUPREME COURT ALSO HELPED BY MAKING RULES
TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS GOT DONE BECAUSE A
LOT OF TIMES WHEN LAWS GOT PASSED PEOPLE TOOK
THEIR TIME BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO KEEP THINGS
THE WAY THEY WERE IN THE PAST.
LATER ON AFTER THE SUPREME COURT MADE THESE
LAWS AND GAVE GUIDELINES IT CHANGED THE CLASSROOM
ENVIRONMENT THAT WE ARE SEEING TODAY AND NOW
YOU SEE INTEGRATED CLASSROOMS WITH ALL ETHNICITIES
BEING ALLOWED IN SCHOOLS TODAY.
WELL THAT WAS ALL FROM ME ON A QUICK LESSON
WITH BROWN VS THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND CIVIL
RIGHTS HISTORY FOR KIDS
