Self-study
P1
Thurgood Marshall's litigation of Brown v. Board of Education in 1952—the landmark case, decided in 1954, that made segregation illegal in United States public schools—was not his first case before the U.S. Supreme Court. ████ █████ ████████ █████ ████ ███ █████ ██ █████████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███ ███████ █████ ██████ ███ ██████████ ████████ ███ █████████████ ██ ██████ ███████ ████ █████████ ███████████ ██ ████ █████ ███████████ █████ ██ █████ ██████████ ███ █████ ████████ ██ ███ ███████████ ██ ██████████████ ███████ ███████ █████████ ████ █████ ███ ███ ███ ███████ ██ ██████
Legal scholars' perspective ·
Thurgood Marshall succeeded in Brown v. Board because of past litigation
Marshall had other cases in Supreme Court prior to Brown v. Board (which made segregation illegal in public schools).
P2
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Historical context ·
NAACP was divided on how to attack doctrine of "separate but equal"
One potential approach ·
Argue that facilities were not in fact equal
Goal fo this approach was improving opportunity for African Americans and improving facilities themselves.
Second potential approach ·
Argue that "separate but equal" was self-contradictory
Marshall's strategy ·
Second approach is correct, but need to try first approach first to prepare courts to accept second
P3
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Application of Marshall's strategy ·
Evolved way to go from individual instances of inequality to broader social argument
Shelley v. Kraemer ·
Marshall used sociological data to show that individual transactions constitute pattern of discrimination
Connection between Shelley and Brown ·
Use of sociological data in Shelley helped court to accept same kind of data in Brown
Passage Style
Single position
Spotlight
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Shelley v. Kraemer involved housing discrimination, not discrimination in public schools.
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the legal requirement ███ █████ █████████ ██ ████████ ███ ███ ██████████ ██ ███████ ████████████
This isn’t what we’re told Shelley v. Kraemer demonstrated. The data in Shelley v. Kraemer demonstrated that
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We’re not told that Shelley v. Kraemer involved discrimination that was due to unequal financial resources. Financial resources aren’t mentioned in connection with Shelley v. Kraemer.
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The data in Shelley v. Kraemer related to housing discrimination, not public schools. Although lawyers and others might argue that the logic of Shelley v. Kraemer should also apply to public schools, the question asks us what the sociological data showed, not how Shelley v. Kraemer might be relevant or helpful to arguments in the public school context.