Legal Terms
When all parties agree or vote in the way or manner
What is Unanimous Decision
The man who started his court case with the Board of Education after his daughter was declined from a white school.
What is Oliver Brown
Which court case established the Separate But Equal Doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
What were schools like for African American students before the Brown V. Board of Education Case
Where did the Brown v. Board of Education originate
What is Kansas
The act of separating people based on their color
What is Segregation
The daughter who was turned away from an all-white school
What is Linda Brown
What was the follow up decision to Brown v Board of education that ordered desegregation to happen "with all deliberate speed"
What is Brown II
What types of schools did African American's attend before the Brown v. Board of Education Case
What is Little Rock
An amendment that was introduced as a way to eliminate segregation and any natural born citizen and give people equal rights.
What is 14th Amendment
Was a American Civil rights lawyer which played a crucial role in the case and also served as the chief attorney for the plaintiffs.
What is Thurgood Marshall
What court case before brown challenged segregation in law schools
What did schools do that disagreed with the settlement of the Brown v. Board of Education Case
Many southern states closed public schools or funded private white schools.
This state was home to the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South, Ruby Bridges
What is Louisiana
Laws that were set in place to enforced segregation from 1877 to 1954.
What is Jim Crow Laws
Current cheif justice which helped arrange a unanimous decision within the Supreme Court
What is Earl Warren
One of the five cases combined into Brown v. Board came from this southern state and involved a legal challenge against Segregated public schools.
What is Briggs v. Elliott
Segregation was claimed to be harmful to black children's self-esteem base on a certain physiological event..
What is "The doll test"
This southern state passed the Massive Resistance laws to block integration in public schools
What is Virginia
A Doctrine that was established in 1896, which stated that as long as there are facilities for black people, then they are as equal as whites.
What is Separate but Equal Doctrine
After the court case, this association made sure that all students of color were afforded equitable education. This association is also still around today managing colored cases.
What is NAACP or National Association of Advancement for the Colored People
This case, decided alongside brown, which challenged segregation in Washington D.C.
What is Bolling v. Sharpe
A collection of laws passed in response to the brown decision that aggressively tried to forestall and prevent school integration.
What is Massive Resistance