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Flashcards by Katie Ezzell, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Katie Ezzell
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Reverend J. A. Delaine | Was the principal, & a pastor. Delaine and a group pf black parents sued Clarendon County School District #22 an asked for a bus for black students |
| Harry Briggs Jr. | He attends 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 school |
| John W. Davis | Lawyer who represented south Carolina's side, he was arguing FOR the segregation laws in South Carloina |
| 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" |
| De jure segregation | Segregation established by law. For example Jim Crow & the Supreme Court Decision in Plessy v. Ferguson |
| De facto segregation | Latin phrase that means "by fact". Segregation that occurred NOT by law but as a result of tradition. Ex: In 1000's black and whites attended separate churches |
| Jim Crow Laws | Segregation laws in the southP |
| Original Jurisdiction | Authority of a court to hear a case for the FIRST time. |
| Appellate Jurisdicition | The authority of a court to hear a case APPEALED from a lower court |
| Legal Brief | A written document explaining the position of one side or the other in a case |
| Majority opinion | A statement that presents the views of the majority of the Supreme Court Justices regarding a case |
| Dissenting Opinion | A statement written by a Supreme Court justice who disagrees with the majority opinion, presenting his or her own opininon |
| "Stare Decisis" | Principle followed by judges and the Supreme Court: a Latin term that means "Let yesterday's decision stand" |
| Precedent | A ruling that is used as the bases for a judicial decision in a later, similar case. |
| Due process of laws | Means fair and equal treatment in a court of law. 5th & 4th Amendments mention due process of laws. |
| Dred Schott v. Sanford (1857) | Case of a slave named Dred Scott. The Supreme Court ruled that enslaved African Americans were property, not citizens, and no rights under the Constitution |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) | Case about Homer Plessy, a black man, who purchased a ticket to ride in the whites only railroad car in Louisiana. Case established "separate but equal" doctrine. |
| Brown vs. Boared of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) | Banned segregation in public schools |
| Briggs vs. Elliot (1954) | Case that challenged segregated school in Clarendon County, South Carolina, |
| Korematsu vs, United States (1944) | During WWII Japanese American citizens living on the west Coast were moved to internment camps. Supreme court upheld the President's authority to do this. This case is an example of the President's power to issue an executive order, checks and balanced, and judicial review. |
| University of California vs. Bakke | Supreme Court case on affirmative action. It bars use of racial quota system in college admissions but also affirmative action programs are constitutional |
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