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.

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 ...

Civil Rights Landmark Cases | The Judicial Learning Center

Ironically, application of the 14th Amendment by the federal courts lead to the infamous 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, allowing “separate but equal” ...

Supreme Court Landmarks

Participate in interactive landmark Supreme Court cases that have shaped history and have an impact on law-abiding citizens today.

Civil Rights: US Supreme Court Decisions - FindLaw

Brown v. Board of Education (1954): In this landmark case during the Civil Rights Movement, the court prohibited racial segregation in public schools. Brown v.

Landmark United States Supreme Court Cases

Issue: In this pre-Civil War case, the question was whether Congress had the constitutional power to prohibit slavery in free territories. A second question was ...

African-American Rights Movements: Legislation / Court Cases

Loving v. Virginia is a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court, which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial ...

Landmark Supreme Court Cases | Brennan Center for Justice

For Ginsburg and the Women's Rights Project, Reed v. Reed set the stage for a string of Supreme Court rulings that struck down sexually ...

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 (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.

Civil Rights Cases - Wikipedia

Civil Rights Cases ; Supreme Court of the United States ; Supreme Court of the United States · United States v. Stanley; United States v. Ryan; United States 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 ...

Court Cases - American Civil Liberties Union

Our legal team at the ACLU files a cert petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, a type of petition that usually argues that a lower court has incorrectly decided an ...

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 ...

History - Brown v. Board of Education Re-enactment

The case that came to be known as Brown v. Board of Education was actually the name given to five separate cases that were heard by the US Supreme Court.

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 ...

Brown v. Board of Education (1954) | National Archives

On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of ...

TOP U.S. SUPREME COURT CASES OF BLACK AMERICAN ...

Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964): Among the first to uphold the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the unanimous decision case ruled ...

Selected Supreme Court Decisions 2000 - 2023

In a unanimous 8-0 decision, the Supreme Court held that the ADEA requirement that to be subject to the prohibition against age discrimination employers must ...

Landmark Cases of the US Supreme Court from Street Law

The Cases · Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier · Korematsu v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Marbury v. Madison · McCulloch v. Maryland · Brown v. Board of Education · Dred Scott ...