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Separate but equal
Flashcards do conjunto (23)
- 1A local pastor and teacher at Liberty Hill Elementary School. He asked for a bus for the students but was refused and he made a court case for it an even when he was offered a bus he knew that it was more than a school bus thing.Reverend J. A. Delaine
- 2He attends the Elementary SchoolHarry Briggs Jr.
- 3the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Prior to becoming a judge, he was a lawyer who was best remembered for his activity in the Little Rock 9 and his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of EducationThurgood Marshall
- 4A lawyer who takes the opposite sideJohn W. Davis
- 5New Chief JusticeEarl Warren
- 6One of the Civil War Amendments; defined US citizenship and guarantees "equal protection under the laws".14th Amendment
- 7Segregation established by law. For example Jim Crow and the Supreme Court decision.De jure segregation
- 8Latin phrase meaning "by fact"De facto segregation
- 9segregation laws in the southJim Crow Laws
- 10Authority of a court to hear a case for the first time.Original Jurisdiction
- 11The authority of a court to hear a case appealed from a lower.Appellate Juristiction
- 12A written document explaining the position of one side or the other in a case.Legal Brief
- 13A statement that presents the views of the majority of the Supreme Court justices regarding a case.Majority Opinion
- 14A statement that written by a Supreme Court justice who disagrees with the majority opinionDissenting Opinion
- 15Principle followed by judges and the Supreme Court"stare Decisis"
- 16A ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later, similar casePrecedent
- 17Means fair and equal treatment in a court of law.Due process of laws
- 18Case of a slave named Dred Scott. The Supreme Court ruled that enslaved African Americans were property, not citizens, and had no rights under the Constitution.Dred scott v. Sanford
- 19Case about Plessy, a black man, who purchased a ticket to ride the white's railroad car in Louisianan. Case established "separate but equal" doctrine.Plessy v. Ferguson
- 20Banned segregation in public schools.Brown v. Board of education of Topeka, Kansas
- 21Cases that challenged segregated schools in Clarendon County, SC.Briggs v. Elliot
- 22During WWII Japanese American citizens living on the West Coast were moved into internment campsKorematsu v. United States
- 23Supreme Court case on affirmative action. it bars use of racial quota systems in college admissions but also affirmative action programs are constitutionalUniversity of California v. Bakke