Brown vs Board of Education

These 2 Civil Rights Movements occurred during the 1950's:

• Brown vs. Board of Ed, Greensboro 4 Counter Sit in

• Ruby Bridges, Claudette Colvin

• Rosa Parks, March on Washington

• Brown vs. Board of Ed, Montgomery Bus Boycott

Which United States court only hears cases involving constitutional issues?

• Supreme Court

• District Court

• Court of Appeals

• Military Court

This ruling explicitly outlawed racial segregation of public education facilities (legal establishment of separate government-run schools for blacks and whites), ruling so on the grounds that the doctrine of "separate but equal" public education could never truly provide black Americans with facilities of the same standards available to white Americans

• Brown vs Board of Ed

• Escobedo vs ILL

• Dred Scott vs Sanford

• Gregg vs Georgia

Because of this case, you now sit in a classroom with people from many different racial and ethnic backgrounds:

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Marbury v. Madison

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Brown v. Board of Education

The _______ branch of government may decide if a law is unconstitutional.

• Executive

• Legislative

• Judicial

• They all can

What did the court case Brown vs Board of Ed establish?

• Public buses could not discriminate.

• Segregation is not legal in theaters and hotels.

• Public schools could not segregate.

• All-black schools must be equal to all-white schools.

Which Supreme Court case reversed "separate but equal" and led to the desegregation of public schools?  

• Brown v. BOE

• Texas v. Johnson 

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Madison v. Marbury 

What was the main legal argument used in Brown vs Board of Education to challenge school segregation?

• A) Violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment

• B) Violation of the First Amendment

• C) Violation of the Fifth Amendment

• D) Violation of the Tenth Amendment

Which organization played a significant role in supporting the plaintiffs in Brown vs Board of Education?

• A) NAACP

• B) ACLU

• C) NRA

• D) Greenpeace

In what year did the Supreme Court deliver its decision on Brown vs Board of Education?

• A) 1954

• B) 1964

• C) 1974

• D) 1984