Lawyers
Name every Black Justice appointed to the Supreme Court in order.
Thurgood Marshall, Clarence Thomas, and Ketanji Brown Williams.
The case that legalized interracial marriage.
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
The year the first Black students were admitted into Georgetown Law.
1948
This fictional character graduated from Georgetown Law and started her own crisis management firm.
Olivia Pope
Name of the legendary record label founded in Detroit in the 1960s with artists like Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye, that played a major role in shaping soul and R&B music?
Motown Records
Lawyer famous for his role in dismantling Jim Crow laws. He was the first general counsel for the NAACP and former Dean of Howard University School of Law.
Charles Hamilton Houston
Supreme Court that declares that the U.S. Constitution does not automatically grant citizenship to people of African descent.
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
This year the first Black Editor in Chief of the Georgetown Law Journal was elected.
2020
TV show known for highlighting Historically Black Colleges/Universities.
A Different World
First African American Nobel Peace Prize Winner.
Ralph Bunche
Popularized the phrase, “If it doesn't fit, you must acquit”
Which 2013 Supreme Court case invalidated a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, leading to concerns about voter suppression?
Shelby County v. Holder (2013)
The Black Law Student Association, Georgetown Law Center Chapter is founded in this year
1969
The highest-grossing film by a Black director.
Black Panther
1926
Who was the frst Black woman to graduate from Howard School of Law and co-founder of National Organization of Women (NOW)?
Pauli Murray
Supreme Court case that ruled against discrimination in lodging and public accommodations.
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964)
How many Georgetown Law Clinics are lead by a Black professor
7 (Civil Justice Clinic, Civil Rights Clinic, Criminal Justice Clinic, Juvenile Justice Clinic, REELS, Social Enterprise and Nonprofit Law Clinic, Street Law).
Beyoncé's highest selling album
I Am... Sasha Fierce
The first Black quarterback to win a Super Bowl, leading Washington to victory in 1988.
Doug Williams
Who was the first Black woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court, who later went on to become the first Black female federal judge, in 1966?
Constance Baker Motley
Supreme Court case holding that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard
First Black President of Georgetown University, as well as the first African American to earn a Ph.D.
Finish the line: You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? ___ ____ __ __ ______ .....
You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.
The first Black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?
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