Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled in this case that "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Nine black students were at first denied the right to enroll at an all white high school in this Arkansas city.
What is Little Rock?
Segregation existed a long time in transportation, education, __________, and recreation.
What is housing?
School districts taking all practical steps to eliminate segregation could end busing, according to this Supreme Court case.
Oklahoma City Board of Education V. Dowell
He was the lawyer who presented the Brown case to the Supreme Court.
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
This was the number of justices what voted for the TopekaBoad of Education
What is zero?
President John F. Kennedy sent troops and federal marshalls to ensure that verteran James Meredith could attend this college.
What is the University of Mississippi?
This term means "mixing of the races".
What is integration?
This section of the country was slow to accept desegregation.
What is the south?
He was the Chief Justice who wrote the court opinion in Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka.
Who was Chief Justice Earl Warren.
When the Supreme Court ordered all public schools to end segregation, over 100 members of this lawmaking body reacted in protest.
What is Congress?
The public schools in this Virginia county once closed to avoid integration.
What is Prince Edward County?
The transporting of black and white students to achieve integration within school districts is known by this term.
What is forced busing?
This organization helps people who face discrimination.
What is the NAACP?
He used army paratroopers to help integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Who was President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This Supreme Court case overturned Plessy V. Ferguson, therreby rejecting the "separate but equal" policy.
What is Brown V. the Board of Education of Topeka?
Governor George Wallace Stood in the schoolhouse door" to try to prevent the integration of this university.
What is the University of Alabama?
The acronym (letters) for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people are these 5 letters.
What is the NAACP?
Oliver brown accused the Board of Education of Topeka of violating the equal protection clause of this amendment.
What is the 14th amendment.
She was denied admission to the school located closest to where she lived.
Who is Linda Brown?
The Supreme Court ordered all public school districts to end this systemic problem.
What is segregation?
Linda Brown went to school in this mid-western city.
What is Topeka Kansas?
This term means "separation of the races".
What is segregation?
This set of federal laws weakened segration in the south and all parts of the country.
What are the Civil Rights Acts?
This President ordered 16,000 troops to the University of Mississippi, and had federal marshalls escort Veteran James Merideth to his classes in 1962.
Who was President John F. Kennedy?