Vocab Words
This word means the forced separation of people by race, enforced by law.
What is Segregation?
This man was nicknamed "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow."
Who is Charles Hamilton Houston?
The 14th Amendment says all persons born in the U.S. are these.
What are citizens?
Plessy v. Ferguson was decided in this year.
What is 1896?
This justice wrote the famous dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson.
Who is Justice Harlan?
This 14th Amendment guarantee means no state can treat any group as inferior
What is Equal Protection?
Houston graduated from this law school.
What is Harvard Law?
This clause says no state can deny any person "equal protection of the laws."
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
The Louisiana law in this case required separate train cars for these two groups.
What are Black and white passengers?
Harlan said the Constitution is this — meaning it shouldn't see race.
What is color blind?
This word describes a Supreme Court Justice's written disagreement with the majority ruling.
What is dissent?
Houston became dean of this university's law school.
What is Howard University?
The 14th Amendment says no state can deprive a person of life, liberty, or property without this.
What is due process?
The majority ruled that separation is not this.
What is inferiority?
Harlan predicted this ruling would be just as harmful as this earlier case.
What is Dred Scott?
This period from 1865-1877 was when Congress tried to rebuild the South and extend rights to Black Americans.
What is reconstruction?
This famous lawyer, trained by Houston, later argued Brown v. Board.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The 14th Amendment was passed during this historical period.
What is Reconstruction?
The majority's rule became known by this phrase.
What is "separate but equal"?
This later case proved Harlan's dissent right.
What is Brown v. Board?
The Latin root of "segregation" means this.
What is "to separate from the flock"
Houston died in this year, four years before Brown v. Board.
What is 1950?
This is the big question the 14th Amendment raises about "separate but equal."
What is: does separating people satisfy equal protection?
This is how many years the Plessy ruling stayed in effect before being overturned.
What is 58 years?
Brown v. Board overturned Plessy in this year.
What is 1954?