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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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