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leading attorney for the NAACP and the Brown v Board of Ed case
Thurgood Marshall
Oliver Brown went to court w/his daughter who was forced to walk across dangerous railroad tracks each morning rather than being allowed to attend a nearby school restricted to whites.
Brown v Board of Education
Date when Brown case was filed (month, year)
February 1951
what did the decision do?
desegregate schools!
interest group who sought out cases and litigants whom they could help in order to shape policy and invoke Civil Rights for African Americans.
NAACP
3rd grader whose father sued because she was denied enrollment to an all white elementary school
Linda Brown
When their petition to have bus transportation to black schools was ignored, 20 parents in South Carolina filed suit to challenged segregation itself, considering bus transportation was provided for white schools.
Briggs v Elliot
dates brown v board of education was argued (month, year)
December 1952
in many ways brown decision is a...
limited document
brown v board of ed combined ___ separate cases into a single suit.
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Chief Justice during the Brown case
Earl Warren
After 400 students in Farmville, Virginia protested against their poor school conditions, the NAACP helped the students file suit against segregation in schools.
Davis v County School Board of Prince Edward County
dates brown was reargued (month, year)
December 1953
an active agent of social change
first case alphabetically listed which should have been the name of the case
Briggs v Elliot
names of the psychologists Marshall based his strategy off of
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Two cases of inequality combined into one, which were filed due to inequitable conditions at African American schools. The case was argued by Louis Redding, Delaware's first African American attorney.
Belton (Bulah) v Gebhart
decision date of brown (month, day, year)
May 17, 1954
what followed the decision was...
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
amendment that addresses the rights of citizenship and equal protection
14th
Marshall's mentor
Charles Hamilton Houston
This case was filed independently in Washington, DC when the school board at John Phillip Sousa Junior High School refused to admit 11 African American students despite having a number of empty classrooms.
Bolling v. Sharpe
rearguing of brown II (month, year)
April 1955
black press hailed brown decision as the
"second Emancipation Proclamation"
challenged the board of education of...
Topeka, Kansas!