Personalities Background in the Arguments The Facts Case Constitutional Precedents The Aftermath $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 The case overturned by the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Download ReportTranscript Personalities Background in the Arguments The Facts Case Constitutional Precedents The Aftermath $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 The case overturned by the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Personalities Background in the Arguments The Facts Case Constitutional Precedents The Aftermath $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 The case overturned by the Brown v. Board of Education decision What was Plessy v. Ferguson? The year the Brown case was argued before the Supreme Court What was 1953? The agency that hired the black attorney to argue the case before the Supreme Court What was the NAACP? Name for laws and practices designed to enforce segregation What were Jim Crow laws? President at the time of the Brown case Who was President Eisenhower? The attorney for the petitioner in the Brown case Who was Thurgood Marshall? The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Brown case Who was Chief Justice Earl Warren? Appeals from these four states joined in the Brown petition to fight segregation What were Kansas, Delaware, South Carolina, and Virginia The side that argued that segregation took African Americans out of the mainstream of American life Who was the petitioner (Brown)? Side that argued that segregation has had a detrimental effect upon Black children Who was the petitioner (Brown)? Side that argued that education was a power reserved to the state, not the federal government Who was the respondent? (the Board of Education) The reason the case had to be argued twice before the Supreme Court What was the fact the first decision did not specify how quickly desegregation was to be achieved? Two reasons the parents sued for their daughter What was the fact the white school was closer as well as superior to the black school their daughter attended? The side that had won in the trial courts What was the Board of Education of Topeka? st 1 The year the Brown decision was handed down by the Supreme Court What was 1954? The number of justices voting to support the decision to declare segregation unconstitutional What was 9 (unanimous decision)? The Constitutional principle, established by the Plessy decision, being challenged in the Brown case What was “separate but equal?” The Amendment that provides for the right of equal protection of the law What was the th 14 Amendment? Post Civil War Amendments passed to give exslaves rights th 13 , What were the th th 14 , and 15 Amendments? The American document that first proclaimed the idea of equality under law with the words, “We hold these truths to be selfevident that all men are created equal… What was the Declaration of Independence? The first Black Justice on the Supreme Court Who was Thurgood Marshall? Location of the school where federal troops had to help enforce the Brown decision in 1957 What was Little Rock, Arkansas? The name of the man who is best known for leading the civil rights movement which followed the Brown decision Who was Martin Luther King? The current policy of equal protection used in an attempt to end discrimination in hiring and admissions to institutions of higher education What is affirmative action? Thurgood Marshall The President who appointed Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?