Society in the 1950s - Quiz 2

This Supreme Court decision declared Plessy v. Ferguson unconstitutional.

He built thousands of reasonably priced homes on small plots of land in Long Island, NY, which served as a model for the post-World War II suburbs.

In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that statements of policy were protected under the First Amendment and that only statements leading to dangerous actions could be prohibited.

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he was appointed by President Eisenhower and wrote the landmark decision in Brown V. Board of Education, Topeka, KS.

He founded the "Beats", a literary group that rejected the materialism of the 1950s.

This Arkansas Governor called out the National Guard in 1957 to prevent black children from attending Little Rock's Central High School.

This African American challenged a city ordinance in 1955 by refusing to give up a bus seat to a white person.

The first African American Supreme Court Justice, he successfully argued for Brown in the famous 1954 case against the Topeka, KS Board of Education.