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Dredd Scott V. Sanford
Mr. Scott, a slave, claimed that his free home in free territory made him a free man. However, the court did not listen to his plea and said because he was still a slave, he does not deserve the rights that a free citizen would. -
13 Amendment (Reconstruction)
Abolished slavery -
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Reconstruction efforts
Time period after civil war when people try to tie the country back together. People tried bribing Hayes to end certain policies if he was accepted into office -
14th Amendment (Reconstruction)
Established due process to the states and citizenship, established citizenship. Found in the Scott v Sanford. -
15th Amendment (Reconstruction)
Right to vote shall not be denied for race or previous account of servitude -
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Jim Crow Era
Time period where the government enforced various "Jim Crow" laws to keep blacks and whites "separate but equal" with different rights to use of certain facilities. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
Court case dealt with discrimination issues about public transportation (like with what Rosa Parks did later on in history). It denied civil rights from Africans and the court said that it did not violate the 14th amendment even though it did. -
George Stinney Case
Case dealing with a 14 year old black boy who was convicted of murdering to girls and was sentenced to death. However, he was not given his rights like right to an impartial jury which contributed to him getting the death sentence -
Brown v Board of Education
Major education case in Topeka, Kansas that declared that establishing racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional because it violated peoples amendments. -
James Meredith- Ole Miss University
People were protesting Meredith's enrollment into the university because he was black and segregationists still fought for their sides against blacks in schools. Eventually, he was enrolled into this university, -
Civil Rights Act 1964
It was now outlawed to discriminate someone based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin and prohibited segregation. Banned all ways of descrimination. -
Voting rights- 1965
Prohibited jurisdictions from putting any change affecting voting in the U.S. that doesn’t discriminate against minorities. States cannot have legislation as a barrier to black disenfranchisement. Substantive due process. -
1968 Civil Rights Act
Prohibited housing descrimination towards blacks like not selling land to someone because they were black for example. -
California v Bakke (1978)
White man applied to the University of California and got rejected on both accounts -
Gratz v Bollinger
Michigan undergraduate told that she wasn't able to attend because she was white. They favored the other race because it promoted diversity. -
Meredith v Jefferson Board
Case in Seattle dealing with slight descrimination laws in school, pulled the question of whether or not a school can use race when determining if they can go to school. Supreme court said no -
Shelby County v Holder
Case questioning whether renewal of section 5 exceeded Congress authority under certain amendments. Court said that it did
