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Segment: "Thurgood Marhsall: Before the Court"
The following questions are based on the American RadioWorks feature "Thurgood Marshall: Before the Court"
Reading Comprehension
Read the abridged article by Leon Friedman: Brown v. Board of Education
Answer the following questions:
- What has happened to integration of schools since the famous Brown decision removing legal segregation of schools?
- Why is the Brown decision so important?
- Why did some feel that segregated education at the elementary level was all right?
- What was Mr. Marshall's central argument against segregation?
- What was the final ruling in Brown v Board of Education, and who wrote the opinion?
Answer key
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Listening Comprehension Questions
 Listen to the special (51:26)
- Who was the first African American named to the US Supreme Court?
- What were the Jim Crow Laws?
- Who was Charles Hamilton Houston?
- What is the NAACP?
- Who is W.D. Lyons?
- Why is May 17, 1954 so important?
- Why is Little Rock Central High so important?
- What did President Eisenhower do to help integration?
Answer key
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Critical Thinking Questions
These activities are based on the (abridged) article by Waldo Martin: The Brown Decision and Its Discontents
Discussion Items: Divide the students into two groups and prepare debates on the following topics:
- Is it important to have integrated elementary and secondary schools?
- Is the United States committed to integration? What evidence have you for or against?
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Research Challenges
Make a time line of events—taken from the introduction to the Web site. Have students research each item (1-2 students per item) and add their work to a concrete timeline.
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Key Terms and Topics
Terms
- Jim Crow Laws
- Howard University
- NAACP
- W.E.B DuBois
- Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
- Oliver Brown
- Brown vs the Board of Education
- Kenneth Clark
- John W. Davis
- Chief Justice Earl Warren
- Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus
- Little Rock Central High School
- Governors George Wallace (Alabama) and Ross Barnett (Mississippi)
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