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Plessy V. Ferguson
Plessy
Court ruled that Racial segregation laws did not violate the US constitution as long as the facilities for equal separate but equal 1892+ he was charged with boarding a white only car because he was 7/8 Caucasian and 1/8 African, on the outside he was white but was technically mixed. he ended up filing a petition against the judge of Ferguson.
The Court ruled in favor of separate areas for blacks and whites as long as they were equal, a decision which would prove to hold for 60 years. -
Brown v. Board of Edu
Court declared that Racial segregation in public schools violated the equal protection clause in the 14th amendment, overturning the pussy b Ferguson this made equal opportunities in the educational world. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. -
Title IX
Sex and discrimination in any school or educational program. Any entity that receives financial assistance from discrimination against sex . No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits. Under Title IX, discrimination on the basis of sex can include sexual harassment or sexual violence, such as rape, sexual assault, sexual battery.The 1964 Act was passed to end discrimination in various fields. -
Edu of all handicap childrens act
successive legal safeguards have sought to ensure that all children/young people have an increasingly equitable chance of benefiting from education. In that year, for the first time, the Education (Handicapped Children) Act 1970 granted all children of compulsory school age the right to an education. The plans for post-war secondary education in Britain aimed to remove the inequalities which remained in the system. This is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 01 February -
Plyer V. Doe
the court held that withholding state funds for local school districts that educated children residing in the country without legal permission was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court guarantee those rights through application of the Equal Protection Clause. -
obergefell v. hodges
state bans on same-sex marriage and on recognizing same-sex marriages duly performed in other jurisdictions are unconstitutional under the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Why did this become a thing? James Obergefell and John Arthur James filed a lawsuit challenging the state's refusal to recognize same-sex marriage on death certificates. The two were legally married in Maryland in 2013.