Supreme Court Flashcards

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Plessy Vs Ferguson

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-1896
-Separate but equal
-Transport facilities

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2
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When are grandfather clauses deemed unconstitutional

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1915

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3
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Brown vs Board of Education

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-1954
-Overturns separate but equal
-Earl Warren
-Supreme court members sympathetic to liberal ideas
-Segregation deemed unconstitutional
-1957 over 700 school districts in border states

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4
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How many border state schools desegregated by 1957

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Over 700

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5
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Problems with Brown vs Board

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-No date for desegregation
-Fewer than 12% of South states integrated
-White Citizens Council resistance 250,000 members by 1956
-KKK and white protests 1955 & 1956

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6
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Brown vs Board date

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1954

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7
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What percentage of south schools integrated by 1957

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Less than 12%

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8
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Members of white citizens council 1956

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250,000

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9
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Swan vs Board of Education

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-1971
-Cuts transport facilities

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10
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University of California vs Bakke

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-1978
-White is denied access
-16 minority admitted
-Bakke admitted
-Affirmative is partially constitutional

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