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Flashcards by victoria russ, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by victoria russ
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| Question | Answer |
| Separate But Equal | principle established by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896); ruled segregation was LEGAL as long as facilities for blacks & whites were equal. |
| Reverend J. A. DeLaine (from the movie Separate but Equal) | the local pastor and teacher at Liberty Hill Elementary School. |
| Harry Briggs Jr. | Attended the Scotts Branch School & walks to school each day 5 miles |
| Thurgood Marshall | attorney for the black parents in the South Carolina Supreme Court case AGAINST segregated schools |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). & Howard University Law School | Two institutions led the way: NAACP & Lawyers, many trained at Howard University helped African American plaintiffs bring lawsuits against segregated school systems |
| NAACP Poster | |
| Briggs v. Elliot | In 1947, DeLaine and a group of black parents sued Clarendon County School District #22 & asked for a bus for black students. The case was dismissed on a technicality, but the parents did not give up. DeLaine & the local parents decided to sue again. This time they sued in a federal court, not a state court. The lawsuit they filed is called Briggs vs. Elliott |
| Brown v. Board of Education case vs. Briggs vs. Elliot | It is ironic that the Brown v. Board case is part of American culture and history, taught in every US high school. The Briggs v. Elliott case is known to few other than historians and legal scholars. |
| Briggs V. Elliot | lawsuit listed the differences between the white schools in Clarendon County SC and the Scott's Branch School. For example, the Scott's Branch school had outdoor toilets, wells for drawing water, old books, and stoves for heating. The white schools had smaller class sizes, indoor plumbing, buses, and new textbooks http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/joseph-albert-delaine-judge-j-waties-waring-and-one-of-the-civil-rights-movements-most-overlooked-cases/Content?oid=4944535 |
| John W. Davis | the lawyer who represented state of South Carolina'; he was arguing FOR the segregation laws in South Carolina |
| Chief Justice Earl Warren | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the Briggs vs. Elliot & Brown vs. Board of Education. He was personally against segregated schools |
| 14th Amendment | one of the Civil War Amendments; defined US citizenship and guarantees "Equal protection under the laws". |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) case of a slave named Dred Scott. The Supreme Court ruled that enslaved African Americans were property, not citizens, & had no rights under the Constitution | |
| de jure segregation | segregation established by law. For example Jim Crow laws & "separate but equal" doctrine |
| de facto segregation | segregation based on unwritten customs, traditions Ex. Blacks and Whites attended separate churches, buried in separate cemeteries. |
| precedent | a ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later, similar case. |
| stare decisis | means "Let Yesterday's Decision Stand" (Yesterday's decision shall govern today's decision.) |
| writ of certiorari | written request to the Supreme Court to hear a case |
| "rule of four" | how the Supreme Court selects its cases; 4 of the 9 justices must vote to hear a case |
| majority opinion | a written statement that presents the views of the majority of Supreme Court justices regarding a case |
| Dissenting Opinion | written by a judge who disagrees with the majority decision opionion |
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