Separate but Equal

1. Separate but Equal Brown V. Board of Education

2. Brown v. Board of Education Background Personalities in the Case Arguments The Facts Constitutional Precedents The Aftermath $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800

3. The case overturned by the Brown v. Board of Education decision

4. What was Plessy v. Ferguson?

5. The year the Brown case was argued before the Supreme Court

6. What was 1953?

7. The agency that hired the black attorney to argue the case before the Supreme Court

8. What was the NAACP?

9. Name for laws and practices designed to enforce segregation

10. What were Jim Crow laws?

11. President at the time of the Brown case

12. Who was PresidentEisenhower?

13. The attorney for the petitioner in the Brown case

14. Who was Thurgood Marshall?

15. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Brown case

16. Who was Chief Justice Earl Warren?

17. Appeals from these four states joined in the Brown petition to fight segregation

18. What were Kansas, Delaware, South Carolina, and Virginia

19. The side that argued that segregation took African Americans out of the mainstream of American life

20. Who was the petitioner (Brown)?

21. Side that argued that segregation has had a detrimental effect upon Black children

22. Who was the petitioner (Brown)?

23. Side that argued that education was a power reserved to the state, not the federal government

24. Who was the respondent? (the Board of Education)

25. The reason the case had to be argued twice before the Supreme Court

26. What was the fact the first decision did not specify how quickly desegregation was to be achieved?

27. Two reasons the parents sued for their daughter

28. What was the fact the white school was closer as well as superior to the black school their daughter attended?

29. The side that had won in the trial courts

30. What was the Board of Education of Topeka?

31. The year the 1st Brown decision was handed down by the Supreme Court

32. What was 1954?

33. Daily Double

34. The number of justices voting to support the decision to declare segregation unconstitutional

35. What was 9 (unanimous decision)?

36. The Constitutional principle, established by the Plessy decision, being challenged in the Brown case

37. What was “separate but equal?”

38. The Amendment that provides for the right of equal protection of the law

39. What was the 14th Amendment?

40. Post Civil War Amendments passed to give ex-slaves rights

41. What were the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?

42. Daily Double

43. The American document that first proclaimed the idea of equality under law with the words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal…

44. What was the Declaration of Independence?

45. The first Black Justice on the Supreme Court

46. Who was Thurgood Marshall?

47. Location of the school where federal troops had to help enforce the Brown decision in 1957

48. What was Little Rock, Arkansas?

49. The name of the man who is best known for leading the civil rights movement which followed the Brown decision

50. Who was Martin Luther King?