Civil Rights Test Flashcards
Equal Protection Clause
Part of the 14th amendment, emphasizing that the laws must provide equivalent “protection” to all people.
Plessy v Ferguson
Supreme Court said that “seperate but equal” is constitutional when a black man tried to sit in a whites only seat on a train.
Missouri Compromise
Missouri could be a slave state if northern territories were slave free (1820). This was invalidadted by Scott v Sandford (1857)
Sweatt v Painter
(1950) “seperate but equal” was generally unacceptable for professional schools
Smith v Allwright
(1944) White primaries are unconstitutional
Brown v Board
(1954) “seperate but equal” is not constitutional (14th amendment)
started in Topeka, Kansas
De Facto
Natural segregation
De Jure
segregation laws
Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg
(1971) Busing can be forced if previously a De Jure area
Milliken v Bradley
(1974) Busing can’t be forced if previously a De Facto area
Title IX
if you offer educational oppurtunities men, you have to offer it to women
Seneca Falls
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, L. Mott, 1848
a meeting of women’s rights activists
NAACP
W.E.B DuBois
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Suffrage
right to vote
NOW
National Organization for Women
Earl Warren
Justice that wrote the decision of Brown v Board
Orval Faubus
Governer of Arkansas, stopped Little Rock Nine for going to school
Civil Rightd Act 1964 - Title VII
forbidding discrimination on any grounds (except gender)
Voting Rights Act 1965
help end formal and inormal barriers to African American suffrage
