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Mr. Scott, a slave, claimed that his free home in free territory made him a free man. However, the court did not listen to his plea and said because he was still a slave, he does not deserve the rights that a free citizen would.
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Abolished slavery
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Time period after civil war when people try to tie the country back together. People tried bribing Hayes to end certain policies if he was accepted into office
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Established due process to the states and citizenship, established citizenship. Found in the Scott v Sanford.
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Right to vote shall not be denied for race or previous account of servitude
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Time period where the government enforced various "Jim Crow" laws to keep blacks and whites "separate but equal" with different rights to use of certain facilities.
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Court case dealt with discrimination issues about public transportation (like with what Rosa Parks did later on in history). It denied civil rights from Africans and the court said that it did not violate the 14th amendment even though it did.
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Case dealing with a 14 year old black boy who was convicted of murdering to girls and was sentenced to death. However, he was not given his rights like right to an impartial jury which contributed to him getting the death sentence
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Major education case in Topeka, Kansas that declared that establishing racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional because it violated peoples amendments.
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People were protesting Meredith's enrollment into the university because he was black and segregationists still fought for their sides against blacks in schools. Eventually, he was enrolled into this university,
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It was now outlawed to discriminate someone based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin and prohibited segregation. Banned all ways of descrimination.
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Prohibited jurisdictions from putting any change affecting voting in the U.S. that doesn’t discriminate against minorities. States cannot have legislation as a barrier to black disenfranchisement. Substantive due process.
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Prohibited housing descrimination towards blacks like not selling land to someone because they were black for example.
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White man applied to the University of California and got rejected on both accounts
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Michigan undergraduate told that she wasn't able to attend because she was white. They favored the other race because it promoted diversity.
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Case in Seattle dealing with slight descrimination laws in school, pulled the question of whether or not a school can use race when determining if they can go to school. Supreme court said no
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Case questioning whether renewal of section 5 exceeded Congress authority under certain amendments. Court said that it did
