Questão | Responda |
14th Amendments | one of the civil war amendments; defined US citizenship and guarantees "equal protection under the laws" |
De jure segregation | segregation established by law. |
De facto segregation | Segregation that occurred NOT by law but as a result of tradition |
Jim Crow Laws | segregation laws in the South |
Original juristiction | authority of a court to hear a case APPEALED from a lower court |
Appellate jurisdiction | the authority of a court to hear a case for the FIRST time |
Legal brief | a written document explaining the position of one side or the other in a case |
Majority opinion | a statement that presents the views of the majority of the Supreme Court justices regarding a case |
Dissenting opinion | a 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 |
Precedent | a 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 vs. Sanford | (1857) 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 |
Plessy vs. Ferguson | (1896) case about Homer Plessy, a black man, who purchased a ticket to ride in the whites only railroad car in Louisiana |
Brown vs. Board of Education | banned segregation in 1954 |
Briggs vs. Elliot | case that challenged segregated schools in Clarendon, South Carolina |
Korematsu vs. United States | During WWII Japanese American citizens living on the West Coast were moved to internment camps |
University of California vs. Bakke | Supreme Court case on affirmative action |
Reverend J. A. Delaine | in the Briggs v. Elliott case was posthumously awarded Congressional gold medals in 2004 for his courage |
Harry Briggs Jr. | discusses the court case brought by his parents Harry Briggs, Sr. and Eliza Briggs against the school board in Clarendon County |
Thurgood Marshall | Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice. |
John W. Davis | served as a United States Representative from West Virginia from 1911 to 1913 |
Earl Warren | an American jurist and politician, who served as the 30th Governor of California and later the 14th Chief Justice of the United States |
Chief Justice Eric Warren | Against segregated public schools |
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