HIST377 Brown v. Board of Education and Eisenhower Debate Vocabulary
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| 246280462 | John Foster Dulles | Eisenhower's Sec. of State; harsh anti-Communist; called for more radical measures to roll back communism where it had already spread (containment too cautious) | 0 | |
| 246280463 | Gamal Abdel Nassar | seized power in Egypt. He was determined to modernize Egypt and stop Western domination. He nationalized the Suez Canal, ending British and French Contr. His Arab nationalism made unsuccessful wars against Israel. | 1 | |
| 246280464 | Anthony Eden | Opposed Chamberlain's policy of appeasement towards Hitler. Became Prime minister in 1955, resigned in 1957. | 2 | |
| 246280465 | Fidel Castro | led the revolution of Cuba and took control of Cuba in 1959; resented past dictators; made Cuba communist | 3 | |
| 246280466 | Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969) | 4 | |
| 246280467 | Allen Dulles | Director of CIA, appointed by Eisenhower. He was a veteran of wartime OSS cloak-and-dagger operations. He was also the brother of John Foster Dulles | 5 | |
| 246280468 | Imre Nagy | Hungarian Communist Party leader who attempted to end association with the USSR which lead to the 1956 Hungarian revolt. | 6 | |
| 246280469 | Nikita Krushchev | Leader of the Soviet union during the building of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis. He and President Kennedy signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963, temporarily easing Cold War tensions. | 7 | |
| 246280470 | Jacobo Arbenz | Short termed President of Guatemala...Implemented a Land Reform Policy which mainly targeted the United Fruit Company by taking "uncultivated land"...US saw him as a communist threat...though to have ties with the Soviet Union...CIA Launches coup in 1954 to eject him from Presidency | 8 | |
| 246280471 | Mohammed Mossadeq | the Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953 when he was removed from power by a coup d'état | 9 | |
| 246280472 | Herbert Brownell | on the Supreme Court during the Eisenhower Administration he called for desegregation plans from schools within a 90-day deadline | 10 | |
| 246280473 | Richard Russel | in 1956 he helped write the "Southern Manifesto" which said that the Supreme Court was abusing their power and should reverse their decision (Brown?) | 11 | |
| 246280474 | Thurgood Marshall | the leader and organizer of a group of lawyers who defended the Brown case, the first black Supreme Court justice appointed by Johnson | 12 | |
| 246280475 | Orville Faubus | the governor of Arkansas he wanted to be elected for a third term and tried to unsegregate central High School in LIttle Rock, he put cops there for 9 black students to go in and the next day white violently protested, eventually Eisenhower got involved and go them into the building although violence continued, he eventually had to close schools, he was a hero to many in the South | 13 | |
| 246280476 | Daisy Bates | president of the Arkansas branch of the NAACP | 14 | |
| 246280477 | George Wallace | political candidate in Alabama he refused to go with the dixicrats and in 1958 lost the democratic gubernational nomination, in 1962 he won--praising segregation, ran for president in 1964 | 15 | |
| 246280478 | John Parker | the judge of the 1955 Briggs case that said the constitution doesn't require integration it just forbid using the government power to enforce segregation | 16 | |
| 246280479 | John Davis | defense leader against Marshall, he did it for free and was very experienced | 17 | |
| 246280480 | Kenneth Clark | he became pessimistic about the civil rights movement and wanted integration but many things were discouraging | 18 | |
| 246280481 | Joseph DeLaine | a reverand from South Caroline whose children walked to school both ways, he got Pearson to file a law suit since whites got buses and blacks didn't, kicked out because of the location of the trial and followed up instead with the Briggs case focusing on all school inequalities | 19 | |
| 246280482 | McLaurin | 1950 George McLaurin was accepted to University of Oklahoma at 68 to get his graduate in education but he was forced to sit away from the others and eat alone at a different hour, the Supreme Court ruled that this was unfair and he won the case | 20 | |
| 246280483 | Gaines | 1938 Supreme Court case caused by Lloyd Gaines, a graduate of Lincoln College for blacks attempt to sue University of Missouri on the basis of race (they wouldn't take him for grad school), handled by the NAACP Justice Charles Evans Hughs decided in his favor, U Missouri built a sub-par black university and Gaines disappeared never to be seen again | 21 | |
| 246280484 | Plessy | 1896 separate but equal judgement | 22 | |
| 246280485 | Sweatt | 1950 Herman Sweatt a mail carrier from Houston was denied admission to U Houston due to race, the case went to Supreme Court and he became the first black man ordered acceptance to an all white university | 23 | |
| 246280486 | Warren Burger | Nixon's choice to replace Earl Warren as Supreme Court Justice in 1969 (conservative) | 24 | |
| 246280487 | Earl Warren | justice sworn in after Vinson died right before the Brown case was heard again, he was the chief put in by Eisenhower--he ultimately decided that Plessy was inherently unequal | 25 | |
| 246280488 | William Rehnquist | nominated to be on the Supreme Court by NIxon he was sworn in in 1972 (conservative, intelligent, had supported Plessy) | 26 | |
| 246280489 | Bryant Bowles | after Brown founded the National Association for the Advancement of White People, he had rallys in Milford, Delaware to re-segregate a school that attempted litigation, led a school boycott and won until 1962 | 27 | |
| 246280490 | Martin Luther King Jr. | U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964) | 28 | |
| 246280491 | Emmitt Till | a 14 year old black boy from Chicago who went to Mississippi after Brown II and was passed bragging about white women he'd had sex with and whistled at a white female cashier, he was killed by her male family | 29 | |
| 246280492 | Autherine Lucy | a balck college graduate who applied to teh University of Alabama in 1952 and go tin, she was heavily protested against by other students threatened and thrown eggs at until the administration kicked her out | 30 | |
| 246280493 | Ruby Bridges | a six year old enrolled in an all white school, escorted by 150 court marshalls, threatened, white kids all withdrew from her class, she wouldn't eat her lunch from fear of poison, he dad was fired and her grandparents threatened | 31 | |
| 246280494 | Dorothy Counts | a 15 year old girl who tried to go to an all white desegregated school, she was thrown rocks and sticks at on the way home, threatened etc. until she had to leave the state (her dad's car was also vandalized) | 32 | |
| 246280495 | Milliken | ********* v. Bradley asked the question whether metropolitan areas (great Boston) could/should combine to have an equal racial distribution (judgment=yes), school district lines can't be used to help segregation | 33 | |
| 246280496 | Bakke | U California Regents v. ***** said there could be no quota of minority students getting admission but diversity was good and could be sought (affirmative action) | 34 | |
| 246280497 | Swann | ***** v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of Education (1964) had to do with Darius Swann a black missionary's child who was told to attend all black school, the supreme court ruled that busing along with other tools were appropriate to desegregate schools | 35 | |
| 246280498 | "judicial activism" | the belief that the Court should use honest judgment as to whether or not the law was within the competency of Congress | 36 | |
| 246280499 | "compensatory education" | to help educationally disadvantaged children | 37 | |
| 246280500 | "judicial restraint" | the belief of the Supreme Court that they should prevent themselves from changing jurisdictions made by state/federal democratically elected judges | 38 |
