Supreme Court Flashcards
Plessy Vs Ferguson
-1896
-Separate but equal
-Transport facilities
When are grandfather clauses deemed unconstitutional
1915
Brown vs Board of Education
-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
How many border state schools desegregated by 1957
Over 700
Problems with Brown vs Board
-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
Brown vs Board date
1954
What percentage of south schools integrated by 1957
Less than 12%
Members of white citizens council 1956
250,000
Swan vs Board of Education
-1971
-Cuts transport facilities
University of California vs Bakke
-1978
-White is denied access
-16 minority admitted
-Bakke admitted
-Affirmative is partially constitutional