Brown+versus+Board+of+Education

Brown versus Board of Education

Tate Muratori-Levit Daniel Fournier Myles McDevitt

This was held in Topeka, Kansas

Outline of the opening statement:
 * 1) Name of Case (Brown vs. Board of Education)
 * 2) Your name (Tate Muratori-Levit, Daniel Fournier, and Myles McDevitt)
 * 3) Client's name (Oliver Brown)
 * 4) Opponent's name (Board of Education) (Thomas Connelly, Maria Delzingaro, and Lindsay Thompson)
 * 5) A description or story of the facts and circumstances that led to the case
 * 6) A summery of the key facts each witness will bring out in testimony and the importance of any documents to be introduced.
 * 7) Conclusions and request for relief

Notes:
 * If they say that the majority of people have separate race schools, objection is allowed.
 * If they claim that we are not allowed to go to a white school, as black people, than they are being unconstitutional.
 * All African American persons have the right to have an equal education and equal facilities, schools, even if they are segregated.
 * ** - Citizenship Rights. [|Ratified] 7/9/1868.** //[|Note] [|Histor]//
 * 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the [|jurisdiction] thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State [|deprive] any person of life, liberty, or property, without [|due process] of law; nor deny to any person within its [|jurisdiction] the equal protection of the laws.
 *  Representatives shall be [|apportioned] among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
 * 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
 * 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
 * 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Stuff:

The schools are not equal. It would be fair if they were equal but because they are segregated so they cannot be equal. Violates the 14th amendment which says all citizens are guaranteed equal rights and Its Due Process Clause which “prohibits state and local governments from depriving persons (individual and corporate ) of life, liberty, or property without certain steps being taken.” It is an unnecessary risk for the children. “In Topeka, Kansas, a black third-grader girl, named Linda Brown [has] to walk more than a mile through a railroad switchyard to get to her black school, even though there [is] a white elementary school less than seven blocks away." wiki

Websites for information:
 * 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education
 * 2) http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am14
 * 3) http://web.ku.edu/~ojclass/brown/profiles/profile_obrown.html
 * 4) http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/brown_v__board_of_education.htm
 * 5) http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=old&doc=87&page=transcript

Extra Information:



KENNETH CLARK

Opening statement:

Hello, I am Tate Muratori-Levit with my fellow attorneys, Myles McDevitt, and Daniel Fournier. and today we will be representing Mr. Oliver Brown in the case, Brown versus Board of Education. My client and many other families have had to face extreme difficulties with the inadequecy of the separate but equal doctrine. My client's child was forced to take a five mile bus ride along with a perilous walk through a railroad yard, just to get to school. Meanwhile it would just be a mere seven blocks to get to the white school. Today we intend to prove that making facilities separate and not equal is unconstitutional based on the fourteenth amendment and, the supposedly separate and equal facilities are, in almost every case, not equal. Thank you your honor.