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Who is the first Black woman to serve in the United States Supreme Court?
What is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
This law school was the first historically Black law school in the United States. Hint: It is not the first HBCU, but it is one of the top HBCUs in the country. It is also not in Florida.
What is Howard University School of Law?
This amendment ultimately abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This historical case arose after the District of Columbia overturned segregation in schools and the separate-but-equal doctrine.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This attorney was the Supreme Court’s first African American justice. He graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1933 and now has a law school in Texas named after him.
What is Thurgood Marshall?
Ben Crump, a national Civil Rights attorney, graduated from which law school? Hint: It is right down the street lol
What is the Florida State University College of Law?
Which amendment is considered the Equal Rights Amendment, which granted equal and civil rights to those who became a citizen of the United States? Hint: This law was very important for African Americans after being freed from slavery.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This was a landmark civil rights decision that allowed for interracial marriage to be legal in the United States.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
This attorney is currently a prominent Civil Rights attorney who has won cases for the family of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Trayvon Martin, and Ahmaud Arbery. He is also a Tallahassee native and a Florida State University College of Law graduate. Hint: He pays many visits to FAMU and came back to FSU for a showing of his documentary on Netflix.
What is Attorney Benjamin Crump?
The National Society of Black Female Future Attorneys was founded in what year? Hint: The majority of the freshman class during that time graduates this semester. We were not on campus when it was founded.
What is 2020?
This law bans discrimination in public housing and certain private units
B. What is the 15th Amendment?
C. What is the Fair Housing Act?
Who is currently the “go-to” attorney for modern-day Civil Rights cases?
Who is Attorney Ben Crump?
Jane Bolin was the first female Black _______ in the United States. Hint: It is a five-letter word.
When was the National Black Law Students Association founded? Hint: Before the 70s; the year that MLK Jr. was assassinated.
What is 1968?
What year was the original Civil Rights Act advocated by Martin Luther King Jr. and other Civil Rights leaders signed into law? Hint: President Lyndon B. Johnson was president.
What is 1964?
Before becoming the first Black female federal judge, how many of the 10 cases that James Meredith argued before the Supreme Court did she win? Hint: Very close to 10.
What is nine?
Who was the first Black female lawyer?
B. What is Charlotte E. Ray?
C. What is Shirley Chisolm?
D. What is Kamala Harris?
The first Black individual to pass the bar exam lived in what state? Hint: It is not in the South.
What is Massachusetts?
How many Civil Rights acts have there been in the United States?
What is seven?
Christina A. Swarns, the executive director of the Innocence Project, argued one of the following cases before the United States Supreme Court in 2016.
A. Loving v. Virginia
B. Powell v. Alabama
C. Dred Scott v. Sanford
D. Buck v. Davis