Brown v. Board of Education 1. School districts from how many states were involved in the Brown v. Board of Education decision? a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 2. A companion case from the District of Columbia, argued before the Supreme Court at the same time as Brown v. Board of Education, struck down desegregation in Washington, DC on Fourteenth Amendment grounds. True     False 3. Brown v. Board of Education is one of the few cases in American history to be argued more than once before the United States Supreme Court. True     False 4. Among the outstanding lawyers who argued Brown v. Board before the Supreme Court were a former candidate for President and a future U.S. Supreme Court justice. True     False 5. Befitting the seriousness of the case, the Court's opinion in Brown is one of the most complex and densely reasoned in the Court's history. True     False 6. The Court's decision in Brown specified that compliance must be immediate. True     False 7. Ten years after the Court's decision, more than half of the school systems previously segregated by law had experienced desegregation. True     False 8. Which site involved in the Brown decision will be dedicated as a new National Historic Site on May 17, 2004? a. The New York office of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where the lawyers for the Brown plaintiffs held their strategy sessions for the Supreme Court arguments. b. The Monroe Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas, one of four segregated elementary schools in Topeka prior to the Brown decision. c. The law school at Howard University in Washington, DC, where many of the lawyers for the Brown plaintiffs received their legal training. d. The childhood home of Thurgood Marshall in Baltimore, Maryland. 9. Although he did not live to participate in the Brown arguments, this individual is widely considered to be the architect of the legal strategy that culminated in the Brown decision. a. W.E.B. Du Bois b. Thurgood Marshall c. Charles Hamilton Houston d. John W. Davis Explanation of answers Quizzes Home