Cumming v Richmond County Board of Education, 1899 (Edexcel A-Level History): Flashcards

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Cumming v Richmond County Board of Education year

1899

Supreme Court vote in Cumming case

Unanimous 9-0 for Board of Education

What replaced Ware High School

Four elementary schools for black students

Ware High students vs replacement schools

60 high school vs 300 elementary students

Doctrine Cumming extended to education

'Separate but equal'

Constitutional basis of Cumming complaint

14th Amendment - equal protection of law

Three 1890s Jim Crow cases (PWC mnemonic)

Plessy (1896), Williams (1898), Cumming (1899)

Case overturning Cumming (1954)

Brown v Board of Education

Williams v Mississippi (1898) impact

Disenfranchised black voters via poll taxes & literacy tests

Duration of Cumming segregation

Until 1950s (overturned by Brown 1954)

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