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The road to equality for civil rights is a long, hard, and ongoing move. Throughout the historical period of the Civil Rights Movement, the Court both restricted and protected the rights of minority groups.
Plessy v. Ferguson
The state laws and federal laws first upheld the principles of discrimination. This happened in the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, allowing segregation in many public places including hotels 🏨, schools, bathrooms 🚽, drinking fountains, buses 🚌, and so much more on the basis that they were "separate but equal."
Brown v. Board
The ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson was reversed in the 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education.
Brown v. Board stated that racial segregation in schools 🎓 was in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This led to the change in the phrase to “separate is not equal”.
Also, in Brown v. Board of Education II (1955), it was obvious that school segregation was still occurring. Thus, the Warren Court ordered that the schools desegregate “with all due and deliberate speed.”
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Required Supreme Court Cases
- Some Background
- Why Do I Need to Know These?
- What Are The Required Cases?
- Why These Cases?
- 4 Key Points for Each Case
- Cases Involving Federalism
- McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
- United States v. Lopez (1995)
- Cases Involving the First Amendment
- Engel v. Vitale (1962)
- Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969)
- New York Times Co v. United States (1971)
- Schenck v. United States (1919)
- Cases Involving Selective Incorporation
- Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
- Roe v. Wade (1973)
- McDonald v. Chicago (2010)
- Cases Involving the Equal Protection Clause
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- Cases Involving Federal Policy
- Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)
- Cases Involving Districting & Representation
- Baker v. Carr (1962)
- Shaw v. Reno (1993)
- Cases Involving Judicial Review
- Marbury v. Madison (1803)
🏛 Unit 1: Foundations of American Democracy
⚖️ Unit 2: Interactions Among Branches of Government
✊ Unit 3: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
🐘 Unit 4: American Political Ideologies and Beliefs
🗳 Unit 5: Political Participation
🧐 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)
✍️ Free Response Questions (FRQ)
✏️ Blogs
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