The Case
The year Brown vs Board of Education was created.
What is 1954?
What is the 14th amendment?
Chief Justice who delivered the decision.
Who is Earl Warren?
Separate but Equal.
What is the idea that racial groups could be legally separated if the facilities were supposedly equal?
Supreme court ruling.
What is unconstitutional?
City the case took place in
Clause of 14th amendment involved.
What was the equal protection clause?
Civil Rights organization that helped bring the school segregation cases to the Supreme Court.
What is the NAACP
Major problem with segregated schools.
What is the fact that black and white students were required to attend separate schools, and black schools often received fewer resources?
Case that Brown overturned.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
Young girl at the center of the case.
Who is Linda Brown?
Equal protection clause requirements.
What is equal protection under the law?
Lawyer which argued the case for NAACP.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Plaintiffs argument.
What is the argument that segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment?
Brown II
What is a 1955 Supreme Court decision about implementing school desegregation?
Vote of supreme court
What is unanimous?
Earlier case that established the "separate but equal" doctrine
What was Plessy vs Ferguson?
Linda Browns father.
Who is Oliver Brown?
One major problem with segregated schools.
What is black and white students were required to attend separate schools, and black schools often received fewer resources?
The phrase that the Court used in Brown II to describe the pace of desegregation?
What is "with all deliberate speed?"
Number of cases combined under Brown vs Board of Education
What is 5 cases?
Importance of Plessy vs Ferguson to Brown vs Board of Education.
What is the idea that racial segregation in public schools could be constitutional under the “separate but equal” doctrine?
Organization that Thurgood Marshall worked for.
What is the NAACP?
Reason that the NAACP challenged school segregation in court.
What is sought to establish that legally enforced racial segregation in public education violated the Constitution?
Historical Significance.
What is it declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional and became a major milestone in the civil rights movement?