BILLS AND RULINGS Flashcards
Brown V Board of Education (II) ?
Date and ruling
NAACP challenged first ruling that was not happening. Ruled desegregation should happen “With all deliberate speed”, again, failing to draw up a timeline.
Brown V Board of Education (I) ?
Date and ruling
1954
Linda Brown not being able to attend all white school 4 blocks away, NAACP said she was at disadvantage. Court ruled that schools should be desegregated but failed to draw up a timeline.
Sweatt V Painter?
Date and Ruling
(1950)
Graduate education must be desegregated.
Smith V Allwright?
Date and ruling
1944
Blacks can vote in primaries.
Morgan V Virginia?
Date and ruling
1946
Desegregation of interstate transport
Plessy V Ferguson?
Date and ruling
1896
Separate but equal segregation in education.
Civil rights act of 1964?
Finished by Johnson- dealt with everything apart from voting.
Weeks V Southern Bell?
Date and ruling
1967
Southern bell company promoting man instead of women who was better qualified.
Row V Wade?
Date and ruling
1973
Abortion rules relaxed.
Browder v Gayle?
1956
Segregation on public transport is illegal
Cooper V Aaron?
NAACP challenged the closing of schools after little rock.
Ruled that it was illegal to prevent desegregation for any reason
Boynton v Virginia ?
1960
To force the desegregation of interstate transport
