Supreme Court Cases

This case created "separate but equal" facilities and encouraged segregation

• Brown vs. Board of Education
• Plessy vs. Ferguson
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Loving v. Virginia

This case ended segregation in public schools

• Plessy vs. Ferguson
• Brown vs. Board of Education
• New Jersey v. T.L.O.
• Engel v. Vitale

This Supreme Court decision said that a lawyer must be provided for people who can't afford one

• Mapp v. Ohio
• New Jersey v. T.L.O.

• Gideon vs. Wainwright
• Miranda v. Arizona

This Supreme Court decision said students could wear armbands as a form of protest at school

• Tinker vs. Des Moines
• Gideon vs. Wainwright
• Mapp vs. Ohio
• Brown v. Board of Education

This Supreme Court case reinforced the "right to remain silent" for people being accused of a crime

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Tinker vs. Des Moines
• Roe v. Wade

• Miranda vs. Arizona 

This decision made abortion legal across the US

• Roe vs. Wade
• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Mapp v. Ohio
• New Jersey v. T.L.O.

In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was

• unconstitutional
• a violation of the 3rd Amendment

• legal as long as the facilities were equal
• protected by the 1st Amendment

This court case deals with the 6th Amendment, which says that anyone accused of a crime has the right to a lawyer

• Mapp v. Ohio

• Gideon v. Wainright
• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Obergefell v. Hodges

This decision said that prayer in public schools is a violation of the First Amendment

• Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

• Engel v. Vitale
• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Plessy v. Ferguson

This Supreme Court decision from the 1850s is criticized as one of the worst ever because it declared that slaves were property, not citizens

• Dred Scott v Sandford
• Miranda v. Arizona

• Engel v. Vitale
• Roe v. Wade