Key People
This Supreme Court Chief Justice delivered the unanimous opinion in Brown.
Who is Earl Warren?
The year the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education.
What is 1954?
The phrase used to justify segregation before Brown.
What is “separate but equal”?
The decision in Brown was this type of vote by the Court.
What is unanimous?
Brown v. Board helped spark this major movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This father helped start the case after his daughter was denied entry to a white school in Topeka.
Who is Oliver Brown?
The state where the case began.
What is Kansas?
Segregation laws in the South were known as these laws.
What are Jim Crow laws?
The Court said segregated schools are “inherently” this.
What is unequal?
This 1964 law further outlawed segregation in public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This NAACP lawyer argued the case and later became the first Black Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were this.
What is unconstitutional?
This 1896 case said segregation was legal if facilities were equal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The follow-up case in 1955 that ordered desegregation “with all deliberate speed.”
What is Brown v. Board of Education II?
Some Southern states resisted desegregation using this term.
What is Massive Resistance?
The organization that supported and argued the case.
What is the NAACP?
The amendment used to argue that segregation violated equal protection.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The type of facilities separated by race in the U.S. before Brown
What are public schools?
The Court ruled segregation violated this clause of the 14th Amendment.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
The ruling made it clear that separate educational facilities are this.
What is inherently unequal?
This young girl had to travel far to attend a segregated Black school.
Who is Linda Brown?
The case overturned this 1896 decision that allowed “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This constitutional principle promises equal protection under the law.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
The decision directly impacted this system in public education.
What is racial segregation?
Brown v. Board is considered one of the most important cases in this branch of government.
What is the Judicial Branch?