People
Cases
Dates
Impacts
Facts/ Definitions
100

leading attorney for the NAACP and the Brown v Board of Ed case 

Thurgood Marshall

100

Oliver Brown went to court w/his daughter  who was forced to walk across dangerous railroad tracks each morning rather than being allowed to attend a nearby school restricted to whites. 

Brown v Board of Education

100

Date when Brown case was filed (month, year)

February 1951

100

what did the decision do?

desegregate schools!

100

interest group who sought out cases and litigants whom they could help in order to shape policy and invoke Civil Rights for African Americans.

NAACP

200

3rd grader whose father sued because she was denied enrollment to an all white elementary school

Linda Brown

200

When their petition to have bus transportation to black schools was ignored, 20 parents in South Carolina filed suit to challenged segregation itself, considering bus transportation was provided for white schools.

Briggs v Elliot

200

dates brown v board of education was argued (month, year)

December 1952

200

in many ways brown decision is a...

limited document

200

brown v board of ed combined ___ separate cases into a single suit. 

5

300

Chief Justice during the Brown case

Earl Warren

300

After 400 students in Farmville, Virginia protested against their poor school conditions, the NAACP  helped the students file suit against segregation in schools.

Davis v County School Board of Prince Edward County

300

dates brown was reargued (month, year)

December 1953

300
brown marked emergence of "warren court" as...

an active agent of social change

300

first case alphabetically listed which should have been the name of the case

Briggs v Elliot

400

names of the psychologists Marshall based his strategy off of

Kenneth and Mamie Clark

400

Two cases of inequality combined into one, which were filed due to inequitable conditions at African American schools. The case was argued by Louis Redding, Delaware's first African American attorney.

Belton (Bulah) v Gebhart

400

decision date of brown (month, day, year)

May 17, 1954

400

what followed the decision was...

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

400

amendment that addresses the rights of citizenship and equal protection

14th 

500

Marshall's mentor

Charles Hamilton Houston

500

This case was filed independently in Washington, DC when the school board at John Phillip Sousa Junior High School refused to admit 11 African American students despite having a number of empty classrooms.

Bolling v. Sharpe

500

rearguing of brown II (month, year)

April 1955

500

black press hailed brown decision as the

"second Emancipation Proclamation"

500

challenged the board of education of...

Topeka, Kansas!