What were African Americans allowed to do after Smith v. Allright

federal appellate courts are called courts of appeals. cases can be further appealed to the u.s. supreme court. cases are heard for the first time in a trial court. if either party disagrees with the decision in the trial court, they can appeal, asking a higher court to review the decision.

the constitution divided the powers into three branches because they don’t want to have a king or queen that has all power. to balance the authority and power the constitution distributed power into the three branches.