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The case overturned by the Brown v.
Board of Education decision
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
The year the Brown case was argued
before the Supreme Court
What was 1953?
The agency that hired the black attorney to argue
the case before the Supreme Court
What was the NAACP?
Name for laws and practices designed
to enforce segregation
What were Jim Crow laws?
President at the time of the Brown
case
Who was PresidentEisenhower?
The attorney for the petitioner in the Brown case
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Brown
case
Who was Chief Justice Earl Warren?
Appeals from these four states joined in the Brown petition to fight segregation
What were Kansas, Delaware,
South Carolina, and Virginia
The side that argued that segregation took
African Americans out of the mainstream of
American life
Who was the petitioner (Brown)?
Side that argued that segregation
has had a detrimental effect upon
Black children
Who was the petitioner (Brown)?
Side that argued that education was a power reserved to the state,
not the federal government
Who was the respondent? (the
Board of Education)
The reason the case had to be argued twice
before the Supreme Court
What was the fact the first decision did not specify how quickly desegregation was to
be achieved?
Two reasons the parents sued for their daughter
What was the fact the white school was
closer as well as superior to the black
school their daughter attended?
The side that had won in the trial
courts
What was the
Board of Education of Topeka?
The year the 1st Brown decision was handed down by the
Supreme Court
What was 1954?
The number of justices voting to support the
decision to declare segregation
unconstitutional
What was 9 (unanimous decision)?
The Constitutional principle, established
by the Plessy decision, being
challenged in the Brown case
What was “separate but
equal?”
The Amendment that provides for the right of equal protection of
the law
What was the
14th Amendment?
Post Civil War Amendments
passed to give ex-slaves rights
What were the 13th, 14th, and 15th
Amendments?
The American document that first proclaimed the
idea of equality under law with the words, “We hold
these truths to be self-evident that all men are
created equal…
What was the Declaration of Independence?
The first Black Justice on the
Supreme Court
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
Location of the school where federal troops had to
help enforce the Brown decision in 1957
What was Little Rock, Arkansas?
The name of the man who is best known for leading the civil rights
movement which followed the Brown
decision
Who was Martin Luther King?
The current policy of equal protection used in an attempt to end
discrimination in hiring and admissions to
institutions of higher education
What is affirmative
action?
Thurgood Marshall
The President who appointed Thurgood
Marshall to the Supreme Court
Who was Lyndon
B. Johnson?