SUPREME COURT
Number of members that are on the United States Supreme Court.
9
Where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his I Have a Dream Speech in Washington, D.C.
On the steps of the (Lincoln Memorial).
This term means separation of the races.
Segregation
He was the lawyer who presented the Brown case to the US Supreme Court.
Thurgood Marshall
School districts taking all practical steps to eliminate segregation could end busing, according to this Supreme Court case.
Oklahoma City BOE v. Dowell
The Supreme Court ruled in this case that "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Nine black students were at first denied the right to enroll at an all white school in this Arkansas city.
Little Rock
Segregation existed for a long time in transportation, education, ___________, and recreation.
He was the Chief Justice who wrote down 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
This was 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 (Mascot?)
This term means mixing the races as in public schools.
integration
He used army paratroopers to help integrate Central High School.
President Eisenhower
This organization helped people who faced discrimination.
NAACP
When the US Supreme Court ordered all public schools to end segregation, over 100 members of this lawmaking body reacted in protest.
The public schools in this Virginia county once closed to avoid integration.
Prince Edward County
The transporting 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 equal protection clause of this amendment.
14th
This US Supreme Court Case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
Brown v. BOE of Topeka
Governor George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door to try to prevent the integration of this university.
University of Alabama
Withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.
boycott
He ended segregation in the US military.
President Truman
Finish this quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, _______ _______ _______ _______ _______!
We are free at last!