Separate but Equal Flashcards
Principal of Scotts Branch School: recruited to sue Clarendon County School Districts’ Policy by NAACP
Joe DeLaine
Father of Harry Briggs Jr (the student that has to walk 5 miles to school everyday at 12.)
Harry Briggs
(QQ) Who said “Education is hard work; so much to teach, too little time”?
Superintendent Springer
(QQ) What did the NAACP lawyers have to prove to the Supreme Court?
What the effect of segregation had on African-American students
(QQ) Which of the following statements does NOT accurately described the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education?
It quickly brought about the integration of public schools in the country
(QQ) The famous psychologyst who ran the “doll baby” experiment was
Dr. Kenneth Clark
(QQ) The Supreme Court justice who recommended a reargument of the case and was the “brains” of the Court was
Felix Frankfurter
(QQ) What state’s schools were NOT a party to the Brown v. Board case?
Pennsylvania
(QQ) The former US Solicictor General who argued this case for the State of South Carolina in the Supreme court was
John W. Davis
(QQ) The Plessy v. Ferguson was the case quoted throughout the movie. The other legal document that was the center of the movie was
The 14th Amendment
(QQ) What order does Frankfurter given to Warren in getting a unanimous decision on the Court?
Jackson, Reed, Clark
(QQ) Why did some of the Supreme Court Justices feel they could not overturn Plessy v. Ferguson?
They felt they did not have the power to create new policy
(QQ) Principal of Scott’s Branch School
Joe DeLaine
(QQ) why was a unanimous decision important to the country?
it would send a more powerful message to states trying to resist the integration of schools
(QQ) Earl Warren was the governor of which state, previous to his appointment to the Supreme Court?
California
(QQ) what was the initial strategy of Thurgood Marshall in the trial at the district court level?
Sue for equal schools, but bring up the constitutionality of segregation.
(QQ) The conflict in “Separate but Equal” and in real life arose when
White students got bus rides to school while black students did not (?)
The head lawyer for the NAACP’s legal defense fund was
Thurgood Marshall
(QQ) What did Earl Warren do to get other justices to side with him?
Wrote the opinion himself and talked with the disagreeing justices to persuade them to agree with the opinion.
(QQ) Why does John W. Davis taken the case over the objections of his daughter, Julia?
He believes that the states should retain powers over schools.
(QQ) which part of the 14th amendment was under scrutiny during this movie?
Equal protection
(QQ) Which of these quotes can be accurately described as being part of the Brown v. Board of Education case?
“We conclude that the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place”
