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Flashcards by maeganbrady410, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by maeganbrady410
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| Question | Answer |
| Reverend J.A. Delaine | Minister and teacher at school in which he goes and asks the white school for a bus to save his students from walking 5 miles everyday. |
| Harry Briggs Jr. | Little African American boy who walked 5 miles to school each day because school didn't have a bus. |
| Thurgood Marshall | Attorney for the black parents in the South Carolina supreme court case against segregated schools. |
| John W. Davis | Lawyer who represented South Carolina's side. |
| Earl Warren | Chief justice of the Supreme Court in Briggs vs. Elliot and Brown vs. Board of Education. (against segregated schools) |
| 14th Amendment | One of Civil War Amendments; defined US citizenship and guarantees "Equal protection under the laws" |
| De jure segregation | Segregation established by law. |
| De facto segregation | Latin phrase that means "by fact." Segregation that occurred NOT by law, but as a result of tradition. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Segregation laws in the South |
| Original jurisdiction | Authority of a court to hear a case for the first time |
| Appellate jurisdiction | Authority of a court to hear a case APPEALED from a lower court |
| Legal brief | Written document explaining the position of one side or the other in a case |
| Majority opinion | Statement that presents the views of the majority of the Supreme Court justices regarding a case |
| Dissenting opinion | Statement written by a Supreme Court justice who disagrees with the majority opinion, presenting his or her own opinion |
| "stare decisis" | Principle followed by judges and the Supreme Court: Latin term that means "Let yesterday's decision stand" |
| Precedent | Ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later, similar case. |
| Due process of laws | Means fair and equal treatment in a court of law. |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) | Case of a slave named Dred Scott. Supreme Court ruled that enslaved African Americans were property, not citizens, and had no rights under the Constitution. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | Case about Homer Plessy, a black man, who purchased a ticked to ride in the whites only railroad car in Louisiana. |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) | Banned segregation in public schools. |
| Briggs v. Elliot (1954) | Case that challenged segregated schools in Clarendon County, SC. |
| Korematsu v. US (1944) | During WW2 Japanese American citizens living on the West Coast were moved to internment camps. Supreme Court upheld the President's authority to do this. |
| University of California v. Bakke (1978) | Supreme Court case on affirmative action. It bars use of racial quota systems in college admissions but also affirmative action programs are constitutional. |
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