Period 1 "Brown vs. Board of Education"

Matching - Part 1 Track down the important information from "Brown vs. Board of Education" to match each item. Linda Brown 7-year old African American girl whose parents wanted her to be able to attend her neighborhood school rather than the segregated school across town U.S. Supreme Court the highest court in the land, the final word on interpretation of our Constitution and our laws N.A.A.C.P. an organization that fights for civil rights for African Americans and sponsored the Brown vs. Board of Education legal case Matching - Part 2 Track down the important information from "Brown vs. Board of Education" to match each item. desegregation the removal of separation of members of a specific race, religion, or other group from the rest of society inferiority feeling or sense that one is less important, less valuable, or less worthy; this idea was one of the causes the Supreme Court identified as a reason for desegregation integration an antonym for segregation; a condition of equal opportunity Plessy vs. Ferguson the 1896 court case that the Supreme Court established "separate but equal" and made segregation law separate but equal name of the concept that segregation was legal as long as an alternative was provided 14th Amendment the amendment in our Constitution added in 1868 that guarantees equal protection for each and every U.S. citizen Brown vs. Board of Education the court case decided by the Supreme Court in 1954 that made segregation in U.S. public schools illegal and signaled all legal restraints for African Americans would have to fall