Thursday, September 30, 2010
What insights does Brown vs. Board provide the reader about the novel's historical context (250-400)
The Brown vs. Board of education of Topeka showed to everyone that every race could learn and grow as a nation. It helped stop the segregation in schools. The book takes place before Brown vs. Board in 1930. It helps us to see how everyone thought that colored people could not be taught or learn or read. But that was not the truth, they could learn and read, acuity better then the white people. Before the brown vs. board, most colored people worked as maids and such other hard working labor jobs. In 1910 the people who couldn't read that were white was 20%. The colored, only 9%. A large amount of famous people tried against the segregation, such as Robert Morris, Alfred Ferrfax, and Thurgood Marshall. They got the Supreme Court to make it so segregation was illegal. In the book they do talk down on colored people because they believe that they are not smart. This is evident when they are talking about Atticus taking on the case of the girl being raped by Tom Robinson.
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Brandon, this post was very well written. you and i had a lot of the same information. i like how you included the percent of blacks and whites that were illiterate. I also used the court case with Attaicus and the girl that said she was raped by tom robinson as an example.
ReplyDeleteWell explain about Brown v. education board. I didn't know most of information in here. I only have how it started. I still like your blog design
ReplyDeletebrandon, when reading this it seems like you know a lot about this topic. i mean you have a lot of facts that i never knew about. good job on this one.
ReplyDeletei like how you described the court case and talked about black people could read and write better.You talk about civil rights because that is the main thing about this blog post and everyone should have eqaul rights. Your blog post was very descriptive and you its very well written
ReplyDeleteThis is a really good blog, liked how you give a lot of information on Brown vs. Board of Education case and give us the relation to To Kill A Mockingbird. Also liked the example from To Kill A Mockingbird and how it deals with the Brown vs. Board case.
ReplyDeleteI like your blog you gave great information also it would of been good if you would of put a little bit of more detail about the book it would made it even better but good job :)
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