By ending legal segregation and robbing it of its moral legitimacy, the case of Brown v. Board showed Black Americans that the law was on their side, encouraging future progress for the civil rights movement.
The first political cartoon offered by the module is from the Chronicle and it connects the case of Brown v. Board to Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves from the confederate states during the civil war. Remarking similarly, Thurgood Marshall, the civil rights attorney responsible for the Brown case, believed its decision would further the steps set forward by Lincoln by ending all forms of segregation (Pohlmann 24-25). The second cartoon, published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, emphasizes one of the questions
The first political cartoon offered by the module is from the Chronicle and it connects the case of Brown v. Board to Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves from the confederate states during the civil war. Remarking similarly, Thurgood Marshall, the civil rights attorney responsible for the Brown case, believed its decision would further the steps set forward by Lincoln by ending all forms of segregation (Pohlmann 24-25). The second cartoon, published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, emphasizes one of the questions