Brown vs. BOE Flashcards
What year was the 14th Amendment (Plessy vs. Ferguson) passed? What were the provisions?
1896 and the main provision was that blacks would be segregated from whites but supposedly they were “separate but equal” (schools, restaurants,buses, trains, etc.)
Who is Brown vs. BOE named after?
Linda Brown because she was alphabetically first out if the 13 families that sued the Topeka school system.
In what year was Brown vs. BOE presented?
1954
Why were students on the North segregated?
Because of Defacto which is based in fact or custom rather than law and were segregated because they chose to live in different neighborhoods
Why were students in the South segregated?
Because of Dejure which means law so it was was law that try were segregated.
What happened to the 14th Amendment after Brown s. BOE?
It was declared unconstitutional. (No separate but equal)
Who was Charles Hamilton Houston?
He was Thurgood Marshall’s college professor and he said that black people needed to use the law to help their race and also said that they need to be “better than and have and absolute understanding of the law”.
Who was the lawyer that held the Brown vs. BOE case and the first black Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood Marshall.
What was Marshall’s argument?
His argument was that segregation created inferiority and students feel inferior because they are separated.
What does impetus mean?
It means the beginning or cause of.
The Brown vs. BOE case was ______ for the end of segregation.
Impetus
What does ornery mean?
It means stubborn and rude.
What was the organization that Thurgood Marshall worked for?
The NAACP.
His grandfather was a slave and was known to be _______.
Ornery. So much so actually that his slaveowner couldn’t even sell him so he set him free. Thurgood got his stubbornness from his grandfather but you need to be stubborn to be a good lawyer.
What did brown vs. BOE find about segregation?
It found that if segregation in schools is unconstitutional then all segregation is unconstitutional.
