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Plessy v. Ferguson(1896)
It was a case of segregation in whicha n aAfrican American (Plessy) refused to sit in a Jim Crow Car which was a breaking a Louisiana law. -
Mendez v. Westminster (1947)
Court case decided that segregation of Mexican-American children without specific state law is unconstitutional. -
Delgado v. Bastrop I.S.D (1948)
Segregation of Mexican-American children in schools in Texas is illegal. The case ended with a ruling that public schools could not legally segregate Hispanic children from their peers. -
Desegregation of the armed forces
On July 1948, President Truman signed a treaty for equal treatment in the armed forces. Of the 2.5 million African American males who registered for the draft more than one million were inducted into the armed forces. -
Swett v Painter (1950)
It was a U.S Supreme Court case that ruled that the 14th amendment was an equal protection clause that allowed Herman Sweatt to attend a UT law school. -
Hernandez v. Texas (1954)
It was the first Mexican American case, in which Mexican Americans and all other racial or national groups in the U.S had equal protection under the 14th amendment. -
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Laws establishing seperate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. It was a violation of the 14th amendment and the Supreme Court marked the end of the "seperate but equal." -
Civil Rights acts of 1957
President Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which empowered federal government prosecutors to obtaun court injuctions against interference with the right to vote. -
Civil Rights Acts of 1964
It was a landmark of civil rights legislation in the Unted States that outlawed sagregation in public places and banned employment discrimination. -
Voting Right Act of 1965
It was an act that was signed by President Johnson, that banned racial discrimination in voting areas by the federal govenrment as well as the state and local government. -
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
At a Public School in Des Moines students were wearing black arm bands as a symbol for peace in Vietnam and they were entitled to their first amendment. -
Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
The law permitted students to attend school until the age of sixteen because the Armish community refused to send their children to school after the eight grade because of religion beliefs. -
White v. Regester (1973)
The Supreme Court declared the 1970 reappointment plan was unconstutional for discrimination against racial and ethnic groups. -
Edgewood I.S.D v Kriby (1984)
It was a landmark case that decided states must revice their school funding system to be equitable in some cases taking from the wealthy districts and giving property to poor districts.
