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| Question | Answer |
| Reverend J.A Delaine | Methodist minister and civil rights leader |
| Harry Briggs Jr. | challenged school segregation in Summerton, South Carolina. It was the first of the five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the famous case in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional |
| Thurgood Marshall | attorney for the parents in south carolina supreme court case against segregated schools |
| John w. Davis | lawyer who represented south carolina (fought for segregation) |
| Earl Warren | Chef justice in the case Briggs vs. Elliot and brown vs. board of education (against segregation) |
| 14 amendment | equal protection under the law |
| de jure segregation | segregation by law |
| de facto segregation | no law just happens |
| jim crow laws | segregation laws in the south |
| Original jurisdiction | authority of the court to hear a case for the first time. |
| Appellate jurisdiction | authority of the court to hear a case to hear a case appealed from the lower court. |
| legal brief | a written description explaining the position of one side or the other in a case. |
| majority opinion | statement stating majority's opinion of supreme court |
| Dissenting opinion | stat mnt stating their opinion (if it disagrees with majority only) |
| "stare decisis" | principal followed by the supreme court (latin meaning let yesterday's decision stand) |
| Precedent | a ruling that is used for the basis for a judicial in a later, similar case. |
| plessy v. fergosen | case that established separate but equal |
| Due process of law | meaning fair and equal treatment of law (5th and 14th) |
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