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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka You Are There This book discusses how the Supreme Court justices took a long time to make a unanimous decision. How do you think you would have voted that day? Why do you think some justices voted against integration? Be sure to add plenty of details to your notes.
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Why Do I Care? You may not have grown up during the civil rights movement when the national attention and court cases were on segregated schools. But that doesn’t mean the Brown decision doesn’t affect you. How might your schooling be different if Brown had never been tried? How would it be different if the case had been lost?
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Surprise Me Chapter Three discusses the Brown v. Board of Education case and other events related to the case. After reading the book, what two or three facts about this historical event did you find most surprising? Write two or three sentences about each fact. Why did you find each fact surprising?
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Take A Stand Ruby Bridges went to school alone for her first grade year. Do you think her parents made the right decision to keep her in the white school? Or should they have put her back in a school where she had friends? Did she open doors to school integration? Write a short essay explaining what you think you would have done if you were Ruby’s parent.