Landmark law cases & American society

Addresses the issues that were raised regarding First Amendment freedoms during the Tinker v. Des Moines court case.

Studies the 1973 case in which Alan Bakke challenged a California medical school's policy of holding seats for minority students; and discusses the impact of the lawsuit on subsequent affirmative action programs.

Explores the conflict between labor and capital in late nineteenth-century America through an examination of union organizer Eugene V. Debs and his instigation of the worker strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago.

Examines events surrounding the proposed rally in 1978 of a handful of neo-Nazis in the primarily Jewish suburb of Skokie, Illinois, looking at the court case that was filed in protest against the rally, and discussing the actions of the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the neo-Nazis and free speech.