POL385: Law and Society
Final Exam Study Sheet

Your ID’s for the final exam will be taken from the following list:


Brown as a “cultural symbol”

“progressive whites”

Thomas/Hill debates

the “cultural deprivation” ideology

the black corporate bar

Charles Hamilton Houston

NAACP Legal Defense Fund

sellouts?

plural equality

formal equality

“Balkans without the shooting wars”

antidiscrimination law

pregnancy leave

Faith-Based Organizations and religious accomodation

person-from-Pluto approach

the Flypaper court

Harlan’s dissent in Plessy

“Only the judiciary could take the first step to end illegitimacy.”

Republican Guarantee Clause

constrained court view

dynamic court view

indirect effects (“Planting the seeds of progress”)

school textbooks after Brown

newspaper accounts of civil rights

segregationist reactions to Brown

limited nature of constitutional rights

lack of judicial independence

lack of judicial implementation powers

1964 Civil Rights Act

Montgomery bus boycott

court decisions as “cover”

top-down vs. bottom-up views of court effectiveness

Name me someone who's ridiculous, Dannie.
Governor Faubus!
Why is he so sick and ridiculous?
He won't permit integrated schools.

“separate is inherently unequal”

“with all deliberate speed”

Milliken v. Bradley

Cooper v. Aaron

Green v. New Kent County School Board

“If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it.”