Transcript My Brother Martin

Vocabulary
Practice
Punishing all of us for the actions
of my sister seemed _______.
a) unsuspecting
b) avoided
c) injustice
d) unfair
unfair –
adjective
– no fair or just
Your great-grandparents are some
of your _________.
a) avoided
b) injustice
c) ancestors
d) unfair
ancestors – plural noun – people in
the past from whom one comes
The mountain climber faced _____
problems, but they still had fun.
a) ancestors
b) numerous
c) segregation
d) unsuspecting
numerous – adjective – forming a
large number; many
The ____ girls did not realize they
were about to get sprayed by the
hose.
a) segregation
b) unsuspecting
c) avoided
d) injustice
unsuspecting –
suspicions
adjective
– having no
Butch ____ doing hard work.
a) numerous
b) segregation
c) unsuspecting
d) avoided
avoided –
verb
– stayed away from
There are many tools to fight
______, and everyone should know
them.
a) injustice
b) unfair
c) ancestors
d) numerous
injustice – noun – lack of justice;
unfairness
There are laws against ________
in public schools.
a) unfair
b) ancestors
c) numerous
d) segregation
segregation – noun – the practice
of setting one racial group apart
from another
Linda Brown
1950, Linda Brown was a third grader living
in Topeka, Kansas. Because she was African
American, Linda Brown was forced to walk a long
distance to catch a bus that took her to a
school even farther away. She was not allowed
to attend the elementary school that was only a
few blocks from her home. Only white children
could attend that school. African American
children around the country had to attend
different schools from white children.
Separating students because of their race is a
form of segregation. Segregation is the
separation of people based on race or religion.
Brown v. Board of Education
Thurgood Marshall presented the case before
the United States Supreme Court. The decision
in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
called for an end to school segregation. The
Supreme Court reached its decision on May 17,
1954. Chief Justice Earl Warren stated in the
reading of the Supreme Court's decision that "in
the field of public education . . . 'separate but
equal' has no place." Not every state followed
that order right away. In time, however,
segregation in schools came to an end.
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