Plessy vs. Brown Check for Understanding

Which was an outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)?

• Administrators may limit the content of student publications

• Public school districts that segregate deny equal protection

• Students have reduced expectation of privacy in school.

• states could require “separate-but-equal” accommodations.

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the U.S. Supreme Court established the general principle that….

• states could use poll taxes and literacy tests to establish voting requirements

• Public school districts that segregate deny equal protection

• states could require “separate-but-equal” accommodations

• Nobody is above the law.

Which court case overturned (changed) Plessy v. Ferguson and the idea of segregation?

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Roe v. Wade

• Brown v. Board of Education

The 14th amendment is meant to give U.S. citizens what?

• Equal protection under the law

• Due process (the right to have the gov't the respect all your rights)

• Citizenship

• all of the above