History
Where was the Brown vs Board case held?
Topeka Kansas
Who filed this class action lawsuit?
Oliver Brown
Was Brown's class action lawsuit successful?
Yes
Brown vs Board left it up to lower level federal courts and school boards to address desegregation which lead to resistance in many -------- states.
Southern
What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Who was the plaintiffs daughter?
Linda Brown
When was the final verdict given?
1954
The Federal troops were called in to escort 9 students into a white school in Arkansas. What were those students know as?
Little Rock Nine
In which case did the supreme court rule segregated facilities were legal?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Who was the plaintiffs main attorney?
Thurgood Marshall
How many other cases were involved besides Brown?
4
What movement did the Brown vs Board case fuel?
Civil Rights
Constitutionally sanctioned laws barring African Americans from sharing the same buses, schools and other public facilities as whites are known as?
"Jim Crow" Laws
Who was president at the time?
Dwight D Eisenhower
What was deemed inherently unequal?
Segregated schools
What act was passed after Brown vs Board that helped to start the process of desegregation in earnest?
Civil Rights act of 1964
In what year did the supreme court decide segregation was legal?
1896
Who was the justice who succeeded in gaining a unanimous vote?
Earl Warren
The Court ruled that the plaintiffs were being “deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the ------ Amendment"
14th
By overturning the “separate but equal” doctrine, the Court’s decision in ----------- of Education had set the legal precedent that would be used to overturn laws enforcing segregation in other public facilities. But despite its undoubted impact, the historic verdict fell short of achieving its primary mission of integrating the nation’s public schools.
Brown vs Board