Facts
The year Brown vs. Board of Education was decided
What is 1954?
Brown vs. Board of Education overturned what earlier Supreme Court Case?
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson (1898)
Students should be able to attend what kinds of schools
What is the schools in their own community?
The method the Berkeley Unified School District implemented to desegregate schools beginning in 1971
What is busing?
The legal doctrine that Brown vs. Board of Education overturned
Separate but Equal
The clause of the U.S. Constitution which was cited in the Brown vs. Board of Education decision
What is the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment?
Something the Brown vs. Board of Education did not elaborate on
What is the method of desegregation of public schools?
The term for the group of students who needed the Army National Guard to escort them into school in 1957
What is the "Little Rock Nine"
State laws about this were found to be unconstitutional.
What is racial segregation of public schools?
Brown vs. Board of Education
What is?
Person who was killed after filing a lawsuit to desegrate schools in Jackson Mississippi
Medgar Evers
The attorney who represented the Brown family
Thurgood Marshall (then the chief council of the NAACP, and later a the first Black Supreme Court Justice)
The movement Brown vs. Board of Education was a part of
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
Two positive outcomes of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision
occupational achievements
college quality
adult earnings
The city whose board of education was sued in this decision
Topeka, Kansas