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Flashcards by Bethany Davis, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Bethany Davis
about 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| A 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 |
| He attends the Elementary School | Harry Briggs Jr. |
| the 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 Education | Thurgood Marshall |
| A lawyer who takes the opposite side | John W. Davis |
| New Chief Justice | Earl Warren |
| One of the Civil War Amendments; defined US citizenship and guarantees "equal protection under the laws". | 14th Amendment |
| Segregation established by law. For example Jim Crow and the Supreme Court decision. | De jure segregation |
| Latin phrase meaning "by fact" | De facto segregation |
| segregation laws in the south | Jim Crow Laws |
| Authority of a court to hear a case for the first time. | Original Jurisdiction |
| The authority of a court to hear a case appealed from a lower. | Appellate Juristiction |
| A written document explaining the position of one side or the other in a case. | Legal Brief |
| A statement that presents the views of the majority of the Supreme Court justices regarding a case. | Majority Opinion |
| A statement that written by a Supreme Court justice who disagrees with the majority opinion | Dissenting Opinion |
| Principle followed by judges and the Supreme Court | "stare Decisis" |
| A ruling that is used as the basis for a judicial decision in a later, similar case | Precedent |
| Means fair and equal treatment in a court of law. | Due process of laws |
| Case 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 |
| Case 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 |
| Banned segregation in public schools. | Brown v. Board of education of Topeka, Kansas |
| Cases that challenged segregated schools in Clarendon County, SC. | Briggs v. Elliot |
| During WWII Japanese American citizens living on the West Coast were moved into internment camps | Korematsu v. United States |
| Supreme Court case on affirmative action. it bars use of racial quota systems in college admissions but also affirmative action programs are constitutional | University of California v. Bakke |
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