Background & Context
This policy of racial separation in public facilities was upheld by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson.
separate but equal
The case was a combination of several cases from different states; the lead plaintiff was this person.
Oliver Brown
The Supreme Court’s decision was this.
unanimous
The Brown decision was a major victory for this movement.
Civil Rights Movement
The Brown decision helped end legal segregation in this country.
United States
Brown v. Board of Education challenged segregation in this specific type of public institution.
public schools
The Browns sued this city’s Board of Education.
Topeka
The Chief Justice who delivered the opinion was this man.
Earl Warren
Some Southern states responded to Brown by doing this instead of integrating schools.
resisting or delaying desegregation
Despite Brown, many schools today are still segregated because of this social factor.
housing or economic inequality
This was the state where Linda Brown lived and her father filed the lawsuit.
Kansas
The plaintiffs argued that segregation violated this amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
the Fourteenth Amendment
The decision was announced in this year.
1954
This 1957 crisis showed the resistance to Brown in Arkansas.
Little Rock Nine
The Brown ruling showed that the Supreme Court can play a key role in this type of change.
social or political change
The NAACP helped bring the Brown case to court. The letters NAACP stand for this.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The key phrase in the Fourteenth Amendment used in the argument was this clause.
the Equal Protection Clause
The Court ruled that “separate educational facilities are inherently” this.
unequal
This later Supreme Court case ordered schools to integrate “with all deliberate speed.”
Brown II (1955)
The phrase “with all deliberate speed” led to this criticism of the decision.
was too slow to enforce
NAACP v. Gaines was an earlier case that focused on this concept.
Attack the "equal" standard to make the "separate" standard susceptible.
The main argument was that segregated schools made African American children feel this way.
inferior or unequal
The decision overturned this earlier Supreme Court case.
Plessy v. Ferguson
The decision inspired this later landmark law banning segregation in public places.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Brown’s influence can be seen in later rulings on this issue, which also deals with equal access to public resources.
affirmative action or equality in education