Con Law
This Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of "separate but equal" racial segregation.
Plessy v. Ferguson
This civil rights lawyer became the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood Marshall
This organization was founded in Oakland in 1966 to fight for the rights of Black people and other oppressed communities.
The Black Panther Party
In 1967, this prominent civil rights figure delivered a speech on Sproul Plaza to a packed crowd of 7,000 students.
This brilliant criminal defense attorney and law professor at a prestigious university becomes entangled in a series of murders with her students.
This landmark case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and declared state-sponsored segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
Brown v Board of Education
This woman was the first African American woman appointed to the federal bench.
Constance Baker Motley
This museum in downtown Oakland is dedicated to preserving and exhibiting the history of African Americans in California and the West.
The African American Museum & Library at Oakland
Who was the first "All American" football player in the history of the University of California?
Walter Gordon
This Southern rapper has a famous verse that says "she like to argue so I sent that chick to law school"
Young Dolph
This Amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves, and guaranteed all citizens "equal protection of the laws."
The 14th Amendment
This lawyer and activist co-founded the Equal Justice Initiative and is known for his work challenging mass incarceration and racial bias in the criminal justice system.
Bryan Stevenson
The first building at UC Berkeley named for an African-American woman was a graduate house named after this pioneering educator
Ida Louise Jackson
Name a black governor past or present.
Deval Patrick, Douglas Wilder, Wes Moore, David Paterson, P.B.S Pinchback
This Supreme Court case struck down state bans on interracial marriage.
Loving v. Virginia
This lawyer was the first African American to serve as the United States Attorney General.
Eric Holder
In 1966 this SF neighborhood was the site of protests and riots sparked by SFPD shooting and killing a Black teenage boy fleeing the scene of a stolen car
Hunters Point
Who was the first black woman to graduate from Berkeley Law?
Annie Coker '29
How many historically black law schools are there in the United States?
Six (Howard, Texas Southern, Southern, FAMU, NCCU, UDC)
This Supreme Court case ruled that restrictive covenants, which were contractual agreements that prohibited the sale of property to Black people, were unenforceable.
Shelley v Kraemer
This judge was the first Black woman to serve on the California Supreme Court.
Janice Rogers Brown
Who first black person elected to the California Legislature from the Bay Area?
William Byron Rumford Sr.
Who was the first Black woman to graduate from Berkeley?
According the most recent ABA 509 Data, which law school in the West Region has the most Black students?
UC Berkeley!