Separate but Equal

Question 1

Principal of Scotts Branch School: recruited to sue Clarendon County School Districts’ Policy by NAACP

Answer 1

Joe DeLaine

Question 2

Father of Harry Briggs Jr (the student that has to walk 5 miles to school everyday at 12.)

Answer 2

Harry Briggs

Question 3

(QQ) Who said “Education is hard work; so much to teach, too little time”?

Answer 3

Superintendent Springer

Question 4

(QQ) What did the NAACP lawyers have to prove to the Supreme Court?

Answer 4

What the effect of segregation had on African-American students

Question 5

(QQ) Which of the following statements does NOT accurately described the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education?

Answer 5

It quickly brought about the integration of public schools in the country

Question 6

(QQ) The famous psychologyst who ran the “doll baby” experiment was

Answer 6

Dr. Kenneth Clark

Question 7

(QQ) The Supreme Court justice who recommended a reargument of the case and was the “brains” of the Court was

Answer 7

Felix Frankfurter

Question 8

(QQ) What state’s schools were NOT a party to the Brown v. Board case?

Answer 8

Pennsylvania

Question 9

(QQ) The former US Solicictor General who argued this case for the State of South Carolina in the Supreme court was

Answer 9

John W. Davis

Question 10

(QQ) The Plessy v. Ferguson was the case quoted throughout the movie. The other legal document that was the center of the movie was

Answer 10

The 14th Amendment

Question 11

(QQ) What order does Frankfurter given to Warren in getting a unanimous decision on the Court?

Answer 11

Jackson, Reed, Clark

Question 12

(QQ) Why did some of the Supreme Court Justices feel they could not overturn Plessy v. Ferguson?

Answer 12

They felt they did not have the power to create new policy

Question 13

(QQ) Principal of Scott’s Branch School

Answer 13

Joe DeLaine

Question 14

(QQ) why was a unanimous decision important to the country?

Answer 14

it would send a more powerful message to states trying to resist the integration of schools

Question 15

(QQ) Earl Warren was the governor of which state, previous to his appointment to the Supreme Court?

Answer 15

California

Question 16

(QQ) what was the initial strategy of Thurgood Marshall in the trial at the district court level?

Answer 16

Sue for equal schools, but bring up the constitutionality of segregation.

Question 17

(QQ) The conflict in “Separate but Equal” and in real life arose when

Answer 17

White students got bus rides to school while black students did not (?)

Question 18

The head lawyer for the NAACP’s legal defense fund was

Answer 18

Thurgood Marshall

Question 19

(QQ) What did Earl Warren do to get other justices to side with him?

Answer 19

Wrote the opinion himself and talked with the disagreeing justices to persuade them to agree with the opinion.

Question 20

(QQ) Why does John W. Davis taken the case over the objections of his daughter, Julia?

Answer 20

He believes that the states should retain powers over schools.

Question 21

(QQ) which part of the 14th amendment was under scrutiny during this movie?

Answer 21

Equal protection

Question 22

(QQ) Which of these quotes can be accurately described as being part of the Brown v. Board of Education case?

Answer 22

“We conclude that the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place”