Brown V Board Of Education Case Study

1) Brown v. Board of Education: In 1951, Topeka, Kansas, Linda had to walk 20 blocks to Munro school even though there was another elementary school just seven blocks away from her house. Linda's parents and several others tried enrolling their kids in the much closer Sumner elementary. They weren’t allowed to go there because Sumner was a school for whites and Monroe was a school for black kids. Linda was a child during the reign of Jim Crow laws and separate-but-equal. Unfortunately, these two schools were separate, but definitely not equal. Monroe had broken ceiling tiles, plaster windows, older textbooks, classes were overcrowded, and they didn't have enough school supplies. This is because every hundred and fifty dollars spend at Sumner,

The war was fought between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire, on one side, and Russia, the United States, France, and Britain, on the other. The Espionage Act was passed on June 15. This was an attempt to protect the war effort from spies and enemies of the US, making it illegal to disrespect government and the military; in other words, if anyone mentioned anything pertaining to the military, includes deployment locations and locations of bases, they could be sentenced to ten years in prison with a fine of ten thousand dollars. An example of this was Big Bill Haywood. He was a labor organizer and was convicted of sabotaging the war effort for encouraging workers to strike for fear pain and decent working conditions. He was sentenced to twenty years in prison for his troubles, but then he was bailed out and sent to Russia. The Sedition Act of 1918 was passed on May 16. This was an attempt to limit the First Amendment rights, freedom of speech. This made it illegal to speak out against the government or the military in a public setting. Mitchell Palmer was working under President Wilson and enforced the Sedition Act. An example of this is the case of Eugene v. Debs. He spoke out against the war in Canton, Ohio. During a protest, he was arrested and placed in jail after being found guilty. Eugene even ran for president while he was in jail. He almost had a million

The earliest explorers to the Great Plains region of North America determined that the area was unsuitable for agriculture. The territory even became known as “The Great American Desert” because the lack of trees and water made the region relatively unattractive for settlement; however, in the decades following the Civil War, farmers began to settle the region and cultivate the fields under the long-held, but mistaken belief, that rain will follow the plow. In the first three decades of the 1900s, there were significant and continuous advances in farming technology: better tractors, mechanized plowing, combines, and more. From 1900 to 1920, the amount of farmland in the plains region doubled. From 1925 to 1930, the amount of cultivated land tripled; however, farmers of the era used practices which deprived the soil of its nutrients and increase the possibility of erosion. The heavy plowing had eliminated the natural grasses of the Prairie that held the soil in place and maintained moisture. Then in 1930, a severe drought struck the Great Plains region which lasted nearly the entire decade. The region's affected most by this drought were the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, western Kansas, and a large portion of Colorado and New Mexico. More than a million acres that was affected became collectively known as “The Dust Bowl”. As the drought grew worse, the topsoil turned to