Vocabulary Review: Brown v. Board of Education

A set of $$22$$ vocabulary flashcards defining key legal terms and concepts from the study of the Brown v. Board of Education case.

Brown v. Board of Education

A landmark Supreme Court case that ruled separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

$$1954$$

The year the Supreme Court ruling for Brown v. Board of Education was declared.

Separate educational facilities

The practice of maintaining different schools for students based on race.

Inherently unequal

The legal conclusion that racially separated facilities are fundamentally not equal.

Supreme Court

The highest federal court in the United States that decided the Brown v. Board of Education case.

Fourteenth Amendment

The constitutional amendment used to establish equal protection in public institutions.

Equal Protection Clause

The provision in the $14^{th}$ Amendment requiring equal treatment under the law.

Segregation

The legal and social separation of people based on racial group identity.

Desegregation

The administrative and legal process used to end the separation of people by race.

Integration

The act of including students of different races in the same public educational systems.

Unanimous decision

A ruling in which all $9$ participating Supreme Court justices reached the same agreement.

Plessy v. Ferguson

The $1896$ Supreme Court case that had established the separate but equal doctrine.

$$1896$$

The year associated with the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling which supported institutional segregation.

Separate but equal

A legal doctrine that allowed for segregation as long as facilities provided were comparable.

Chief Justice Earl Warren

The Supreme Court leader who wrote the unanimous opinion in the Brown v. Board case.

Thurgood Marshall

The lawyer who argued for the plaintiffs before the Supreme Court and later became a justice.

NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which provided the legal framework for the case.

Topeka

The city located in Kansas where the specific Brown v. Board case originated.

Jurisdiction

The specific power of a court to interpret the law and make legal judgments.

Precedent

A prior court decision that provides a rule for subsequent cases with similar facts.

Plaintiffs

The group of individuals or parties who initiate a legal suit in court.

Civil Rights

Social and political freedoms protected by law which were at the center of the Brown case.