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Plessy v. Fergunson

Submitted by khenkes on Wed, 11/24/2021 - 14:36

The challenge to the Louisiana law that led to the Plessy v. Fergunson decision was one of many efforts by African Americans throughtout the United States to claims rights they were supposed to have gained from the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and seveal new amendments to the Constitution that followed the proclamation.

Plessy v. Fergunson

Submitted by khenkes on Wed, 11/24/2021 - 14:36

The challenge to the Louisiana law that led to the Plessy v. Fergunson decision was one of many efforts by African Americans throughtout the United States to claims rights they were supposed to have gained from the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and seveal new amendments to the Constitution that followed the proclamation.

Plessy v. Fergunson

Submitted by khenkes on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:25

The challenge to the Louisiana law that led to the Plessy v. Fergunson decision was one of many efforts by African Americans throughtout the United States to claims rights they were supposed to have gained from the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and seveal new amendments to the Constitution that followed the proclamation.

United States v. the Amistad

the question of slavery in a free country
  • Hulm, David
2004
Chronicles the U.S. Supreme Court case that set free the African slaves who revolted on the Spanish ship "Amistad" and drifted into American waters in 1839.

Roe v. Wade

the right to choose
  • Payment, Simone
2004
Primary sources help chronicle the events surrounding the Supreme Court's decision on Roe v. Wade and the impact their decision had on American society.

Plessy v. Ferguson

legalizing segregation
  • Anderson, Wayne
2004
Presents an account of the case of Plessy v. Ferguson in which the Supreme Court upheld the Louisiana law allowing for racial segregation in public facilities; looks at the social environment of the late nineteenth-century at the time the case was brought; and discusses the aftermath of the ruling.

Miranda v. Arizona

the rights of the accused
  • Sonneborn, Liz
2004
A brief review of the Miranda versus Arizona case, its hearing before the United States Supreme Court, and its implications for defendants rights.

Cruzan v. Missouri

the right to die
  • Donnelly, Karen J
2004
Presents an account of Cruzan v. Missouri, a 1989 Supreme Court case in which the family of Nancy Cruzan, in a persistent vegetative state after an automobile accident, asked that her feeding tube be removed and she be allowed to die; and discusses the right to die movement and some consequences of the case.

Brown v. Board of Education

the case against school segregation
  • Anderson, Wayne
2004
Examines the history of the Jim Crow laws that allowed the segregation of whites and African-Americans, discusses challenges to the laws, and looks at how things changed when the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public education in 1954 in the case of "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.".
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