Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled in this 1896 case that "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional.
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Brown case originated in this Kansas city.
Topeka
This term means "separation of the races."
Segregation
He was the lawyer who represented the Brown case to the Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall
School districts taking all practical steps to eliminate segregation could end court ordered busing, according to this Supreme Court case.
Oklahoma City Board of Education v. Dowell
This is the number of justices that voted for the Topeka Board of Education.
Zero
President John F. Kennedy sent troops and federal marshals to ensure that James Meredith could attend this school.
University of Mississippi
Segregation existed for a long time in transportation, education, ____________, and recreation.
housing
He was the Chief Justice who wrote the court opinion in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
Earl Warren
This section of the country was slow to accept desegregation.
The South
When the Supreme Court ordered all public schools to end segregation, over 100 members of this federal body reacted in protest.
Congress
The public schools in this Virginia county once closed to avoid integration.
Prince Edward County
This term means "mixing of the races," as in public schools.
Integration
He used army paratroopers to help integrate Central High School.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
This organization helps people who face discrimination.
The NAACP
This Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, thereby rejecting the "separate but equal" doctrine.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Governor George Wallace "stood in the schoolhouse door" to try to prevent the integration of this university.
University of Alabama
The transportation of black and white students to achieve integration within school districts is known by this term.
Busing
She was denied admission to the school located closest to where she lived.
Linda Brown
Oliver Brown accused the Board of Education of Topeka of violating the equal protection clause of this amendment.
Fourteenth Amendment
The Court ordered schools to desegregate with this phrase, meaning as quickly as possible while maintaining order.
"with all deliberate speed"
Nine black students were at first denied the right to enroll at an all-white high school in this Arkansas city.
Little Rock
This phrase described racial separation that was legal under Plessy v. Ferguson.
"Separate but equal"
He was Linda's father, who filed the lawsuit against the Topeka Board of Education.
Oliver Brown
The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education declared that separate schools were inherently this.
Unequal