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Landmark Civil Rights Cases Decided by the Supreme Court

A professor, researcher and author share his expertise in this crucial look at groundbreaking civil rights cases.

Civil Rights Landmark Cases | The Judicial Learning Center

The 14 th Amendment has been applied in many courts cases in which a law or policy requires differential treatment according to race.

African-American Rights Movements: Legislation / Court Cases

In Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and ...

A look at landmark Supreme Court cases on race and the Constitution

Ferguson (1896): More than a decade after The Civil Rights Cases were decided, the Court went further in Plessy v. Ferguson to rule “that state- ...

The Civil Rights Cases | Oyez

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 affirmed the equality of all persons in the enjoyment of transportation facilities, in hotels and inns, and in theaters and places ...

Supreme Court Landmarks

Bethel School District #43 v. Fraser (1987) Holding: Students do not have a First Amendment right to make obscene speeches in school.

Landmark United States Supreme Court Cases

Marbury v. Madison (1803). Issue: Who can ultimately decide what the law is? Result: "It is explicitly the province and duty of the Judicial Department to ...

Civil Rights: US Supreme Court Decisions - FindLaw

The United States Supreme Court has decided many civil rights cases. Take action if you have concerns about possible civil rights violations in your life.

Civil Rights Cases - Wikipedia

The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883), were a group of five landmark cases in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Thirteenth and ...

Civil Rights Cases | 109 U.S. 3 (1883)

the cases is the constitutionality of the law, for if the law is unconstitutional, none of the prosecutions can stand. The sections of the law referred to ...

The Supreme Court . Expanding Civil Rights . Landmark Cases | PBS

Landmark Cases ; Frontiero v. Richardson ; Regents of University of California v. Bakke, Regents of University of California v. Bakke ; Bowers v. Hardwick ; Casey v ...

Civil Rights Cases | US Supreme Court [1883] - Britannica

Civil Rights Cases, five legal cases that the U.S. Supreme Court consolidated (because of their similarity) into a single ruling on October ...

Landmark Supreme Court Cases | Brennan Center for Justice

In 1967, Loving v. Virginia reached the Supreme Court, which unanimously found Virginia's anti-miscegenation law to be unconstitutional. Chief ...

U.S. Supreme Court: Civil Rights Cases, 1883

Description. The Civil Rights Cases of 1883 combined five different cases that revolved around the 1875 Civil Rights Act, which guaranteed all persons the ...

Civil Rights Cases (1883) - C-SPAN Landmark Cases

In 1883, the Supreme Court took up five cases all filed by African Americans claiming refusal of access to hotels, theaters, restaurants and trains -- access ...

The Civil Rights Cases (1883) - The National Constitution Center

These cases addressed the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act of 1875—the last major civil rights law passed by Congress during Reconstruction ...

History - Brown v. Board of Education Re-enactment

(Note: Some of the case information is from Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy. Oxford University ...

Brown v. Board of Education | The Case that Changed America

The landmark Brown v. Board decision gave LDF its most celebrated victory in a long, storied history of fighting for civil rights and marked a defining moment ...

The Supreme Court . Expanding Civil Rights . Landmark Cases ...

Brown v. Board of Education (1954), now acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century, unanimously held that the racial ...

Court Cases - American Civil Liberties Union

The Supreme Court is “in session,” meaning it hears oral arguments, issues written decisions, and decides whether to take additional cases.