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Homer Ferguson a mixed man traveling in a Louisiana train station was charged after sitting in an all white car violating the separate car act. This case took into consideration the 14th amendment’s protection clause that no state be allowed to deny equal protection laws to anyone within jurisdiction, but in the end the case was dismissed unconstitutional with the notion that separate is equal. This gave sanction for segregation between Whites and African Americans. -
At the time it was allowed for students to be turned down by schools based on their race. Parents of a little girl Linda Brown who traveling a distance to attend school sued the board of education on the segregation of schools being harmful and unequal to African American Students. The supreme court ruled that it was in violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment and had it abolished. This began the desegregation of schools and created the diversity we see today. -
San Francisco was said to deny a Chinese American english learning and was the schools failure to allow him equal rights of learning. This was sent to the district stating that the students were not in favor of advancing in learning and was taken to the district. The district denied the accusations so it was sent to court. The court stated that the school was discriminating against their natural origin and ruled in favor of the students. Now there are many ELL students but not many ELL programs -
This law was created so that not any education program or activity that is receiving any sort of federal finance not be allowed to discriminate based on ones sex. If any institution does not complete then funding would be terminated. It was signed into law in 1972 under the Education Amendments. This gave many opening opportunities to women in education to this day it still protects many from any sort of discrimination against our sex. -
A Texas law allowed school funding to be withheld from students of undocumented status allowing local school districts to deny enrollments of students who were not legally admitted into the United States. Yet it was noted that this was insufficient for them to be deprived of learning. The Supreme Court found the law to be violating the 14th amendment discriminating against them for something that was out of their control. These days Immigrant children are provided protection with DACA in place. -
A thirteen year old girl in Pierce City, Missouri was denied to try out for her Middle school football team. As they had stated that the team was strictly for boys. She went on and sued the school district for violating her 14th amendment and discriminating against her gender. The court ruled in favor of her with the school having no reason to prevent her from trying out for the team. To this day I have still noticed that many girls are now allowed to play in football teams in many schools. -
Sexual harassment on a high school student and her teacher and the faculty from the school tried to lead her to drop the case. It went on in court and was stated that she had experienced sexual abuse by her teacher Andrew Hill. He later on resigned from the district. The student was in favor by the court falling under the violation on Tittle IX and even her 14th amendment. To this day there are many cases in which students are abused in the classroom and it isn’t taken serious until later on. -
Connecticut students began to argue that minority groups weren’t offered the same resources given to white students. Students from the cities schools were segregated between being from the city and from the suburbs. These students were fighting to receive the same education that was promised in the 14th amendment. The court was then set to order schools to desegregate and offer the sane opportunities to all the students. Now schools are diverse and provide the same resources to all students.