Civil Rights Court Cases

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal to

• allow children to work

• pay black people less than white people

• return a slave

• segregate schools

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Mendez v. Kirby ISD

What are Jim Crow Laws?

• Laws that placed freedom limitations on nonwhite people

• Laws that made all people work together towards a common goal

Keeping things or people separate

• prejudice

• union

• confederate

• segregation

Thurgood Marshal used the U.S. Constitution to protect the _____ of African Americans

• segregation

• civil rights

• authority

• citizens