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1
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key term

part primary voting

A

voting for presidential candidates by registered members of political parties (before actual presidential election)

2
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key figure

Thurgood Marshall

A
an AA lawyer 
from 1934 worked for NAACP 
appointe an appeal judge in 1961 
solicitor general in 1965 
became a SC justice in 1976
3
Q

Smith v. Allwright

when? what?

A

1944

unconstitutional for AA to be exluded from party primar voting

4
Q

Brown v. Topeka Board of Education

when? what? who took it to supreme court?

A

1954
segregation illegal
NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall

5
Q

Brown v. Topeka Board of Education

provoked

A

violence/protest in south

required use of federal armed forced to enforce

6
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Boynton v. Virginia
when?
what?

A

1960

confirmed segregation of transport was unconstitutional -> freedom rides

7
Q

Alexander v. Holmes County

when? what?

A

1969

insisted on more rapid desegregation of schools

8
Q

Swann v Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education
when
what

A

1971
approved plans for forced desegregation by busing children from white suburbs into inner city areas with more black children

9
Q

key term

bussing

A

policy of ensuring children wer in mixed race schools to help socially disadvantaged AA
unpopular among whites = disturbances in Kentucky 1975-76

10
Q

high points of courts importance?

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1896 legal backing to segregation

1956 legal backing to integration