Brown v. Board of Education - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Prior to this broader case, Barbara Rose Johns Powell led an equal education strike at R. R. Moton High School after tar paper shacks were erected for extra classroom space. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this landmark decision which ruled that public schools could not racially segregate per the Equal Protection Clause, thus overturning Plessy v. Ferguson.

ANSWER: Brown v. Board of Education [or Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka; or Brown I]

[10m] Protestors led by Powell shouted “Down with tar-paper shacks” in this state. Harry F. Byrd resisted the Brown v. Board decision in this state through “massive resistance.”

ANSWER: Virginia [or VA]

[10h] Despite the efforts of Powell, this plan, named for a governor of Virginia in the 1950s, attempted to protect racial segregation in public schools and reduce the power of Virginia’s NAACP chapter.

ANSWER: Stanley Plan

<NS, American History>

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Summary


California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	7	15.71	100%	57%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	12.86	100%	29%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	7	21.43	100%	100%	14%

Data


Arizona State	UC Irvine	10	0	0	10
UCSD C	UC Santa Barbara	10	0	0	10
UCLA B	UCSD B	10	10	0	20
Brock	Western C	10	0	0	10
Carleton University	Waterloo B	10	10	0	20
Guelph	McGill A	10	0	0	10
Ottawa	Queen's	10	10	0	20
McGill B	Simon Fraser	10	0	0	10
UBC A	Toronto B	10	10	0	20
Toronto G	Toronto C	10	0	0	10
Toronto E	UBC B	10	0	0	10
Toronto F	Toronto Metropolitan	10	0	0	10
Waterloo A	McMaster A	10	10	0	20
UCLA A	UCSD A	10	0	0	10
CWRU A	Ohio State B	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Michigan A	10	10	0	20
Ohio State A	Pittsburgh	10	10	0	20
Ohio State C	CWRU B	10	0	0	10
Duke	Liberty B	10	0	0	10
Liberty A	Wake Forest	10	0	0	10
James Madison B	NC State A	10	10	0	20
Liberty C	Virginia	10	10	0	20
William and Mary	South Carolina B	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech A	VCU	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech B	North Carolina B	10	0	0	10
MIT	Bowdoin B	10	0	0	10
Brown	Brandeis B	10	0	0	10
Harvard A	Brandeis A	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth A	Yale	10	10	0	20
Missouri B	Iowa State	10	10	0	20
Minnesota A	Missouri A	10	10	0	20
Washington B	Washington A	10	10	0	20
Bruin	Louisville B	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Kentucky	Mississipi State	10	0	0	10
Tennessee A	Alabama A	10	0	0	10
Alabama B	Tennessee B	10	0	0	10
WashU A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
WashU B	Vanderbilt B	10	0	0	10
Birmingham	Southampton A	10	0	0	10
Cambridge A	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
Cardiff	Oxford C	10	0	0	10
Manchester	Southampton B	10	0	0	10
Edinburgh A	Warwick A	10	0	0	10
Montpellier	Warwick B	10	0	0	10
NYU A	Catholic	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	Rutgers B	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Columbia C	10	10	0	20
Rutgers A	John Jay	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins A	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
Maryland C	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Georgetown	10	10	0	20