P. Currah's Core 3 Section
For background information, see the handout on "Important legal and constitutional enactments on race."
1. What did the Supreme Court decide in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)? What were their arguments?
2. What was the three word doctrine that justified legal segregation in the South from 1896 to 1954?
3. How could Charles Hamilton Houston be described as the architect of desegregration, the "man who killed Jim Crow"? Be specific.
4. What weakness in the Jim Crow laws did Houston and his team challenge first? Why?
5. What was the reasoning behind the decision to focus on desegregating education first?
6. How did Houston and his lawyers prove that black schools were not treated equally by the government? Give examples.
7. Name the case in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared legal segregation unconstitutional. Describe the argument of the plaintiffs.
8. Did that 1954 case end Jim Crow? What had to happen before the Supreme Court's decision ending legal segregation was realized?
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