Constitutional Q's
This clause was central to BOTH cases.
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
Year decided.
What is 1896?
Year decided.
What is 1954?
Both cases centered on this amendment.
What is the 14th amendment?
Brown led to this major American movement.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
Plessy argued this amendment was being violated.
What is the 14th Amendment (Equal Protection)?
The doctrine created by this case.
What is separate but equal?
The state where the case originated.
What is Kansas?
This case involved more than one amendment.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This term describes ending segregation.
What is desegregation?
This phrase describes how Brown interpreted the 14th Amendment differently than Plessy.
What is “inherently unequal”?
Where did the segregation involved take place?
What is railroad cars?
The organization that argued the case.
What is the NAACP?
Plessy allowed this; Brown rejected it.
Separate but equal
How did southern states react to the ruling in brown v board?
What is massive resistance?
This concept means courts should follow previous decisions.
What is Precedent?
The which SCOTUS Justice was the lone dissenter.
Who is Justice John Marshall Harlan?
Type of segregation challenged.
What is public school segregation?
How many years did it take to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson?
58
Brown strengthened this branch of government.
The Judicial Branch
Brown overturned Plessy, meaning it did this to precedent.
What is overruled/reversed precedent?
Harlan said the Constitution is this.
What is color-blind?
brown v board showed that segregation in public schools negatively affected black school children in this aspect.
What is psychologically?
One major reason the Court’s interpretation changed.
What is evolving understanding of equality / social science evidence / changing society?
Brown showed the Constitution can do this over time.
What is evolve / be reinterpreted?