Unit 12: Civil Rights and Vietnam
Chapter 29.1: Taking on Segregation
KEY TERMS
Brown
v.
Board of
Education
NOTE TAKING AREA
● In this case, the father of eightyearold Linda
Brown had charged the board of education of
Topeka, Kansas, with violating Linda’s rights by
denying her admission to an allwhite elementary
school four blocks from her house. The nearest
allblack elementary school was 21 blocks away.
● In a landmark verdict the Supreme Court struck
down school segregation as a slam on the 14th…
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