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4. The case overturned by the Brown v. Board of Education decision

5. What was Plessy v. Ferguson?

6. The year the Brown case was argued before the Supreme Court

7. What was 1953?

8. The agency that hired the black attorney to argue the case before the Supreme Court

9. What was the NAACP?

10. Name for laws and practices designed to enforce segregation

11. What were Jim Crow laws?

12. President at the time of the Brown case

13. Who was President Eisenhower?

14. The attorney for the petitioner in the Brown case

15. Who was Thurgood Marshall?

16. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Brown case

17. Who was Chief Justice Earl Warren?

18. Appeals from these four states joined in the Brown petition to fight segregation

19. What were Kansas, Delaware, South Carolina, and Virginia

20. The side that argued that segregation took African Americans out of the mainstream of American life

21. Who was the petitioner (Brown)?

22. Side that argued that segregation has had a detrimental effect upon Black children

23. Who was the petitioner (Brown)?

24. Side that argued that education was a power reserved to the state, not the federal government

25. Who was the respondent? (the Board of Education)

26. The reason the case had to be argued twice before the Supreme Court

27. What was the fact the first decision did not specify how quickly desegregation was to be achieved?

28. Two reasons the parents sued for their daughter

29. What was the fact the white school was closer as well as superior to the black school their daughter attended?

30. The side that had won in the trial courts

31. What was the Board of Education of Topeka?

32. The year the 1 st Brown decision was handed down by the Supreme Court

33. What was 1954?

35. The number of justices voting to support the decision to declare segregation unconstitutional

36. What was 9 (unanimous decision)?

37. The Constitutional principle, established by the Plessy decision, being challenged in the Brown case

38. What was “separate but equal?”

39. The Amendment that provides for the right of equal protection of the law

40. What was the 14 th Amendment?

41. Post Civil War Amendments passed to give ex- slaves rights

42. What were the 13 th, 14 th, and 15 th Amendments?

44. The American document that first proclaimed the idea of equality under law with the words, “We hold these truths to be self- evident that all men are created equal…

45. What was the Declaration of Independence?

46. The first Black Justice on the Supreme Court

47. Who was Thurgood Marshall?

48. Location of the school where federal troops had to help enforce the Brown decision in 1957

49. What was Little Rock, Arkansas?

50. The name of the man who is best known for leading the civil rights movement which followed the Brown decision

51. Who was Martin Luther King?

52. The current policy of equal protection used in an attempt to end discrimination in hiring and admissions to institutions of higher education

53. What is affirmative action?

54. Thurgood Marshall

55. The President who appointed Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court

56. Who was Lyndon B. Johnson ?