Racial Discrimination

By lhugheshhs

  • Strauder v. West Virginia

    Strauder v. West Virginia
    Taylor Strauder was an African American who was charged with murder in Ohio County, West Virginia, on October 20, 1874. A West Virginia law said only white men could serve as jurors. He thought West Virginia's law violated the Equal Protection Clause by treating African Americans unequally. A federal law said a defendant could have his case moved from state court to federal court whenever the state court was violating its citizens’ equal rights. Strauder used this law to ask the state court t

  • NAACP

    NAACP
    The event that caused the formation NAACP was a bloody race riot in Springfield, Illinois, in August, 1908, where white mobs destroyed much of the black section of Springfield. Some 2,000 black residents were forced to leave. A National Committee of one hundred was charged with raising funds and giving prestige to the organization; a smaller Executive Committee, would direct the organization's activities, on May 14, 1910, it was approved.

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education
    In 1954, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited segregation in public schools on the basis of race. The Court then required public school districts to begin the process of integration "with all deliberate speed."

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made the most significant changes in civil rights protection in the history of the country. It prohibited racial and other discrimination in employment, education, and use of public accommodations and facilities.

  • Civil Rights Legislation in the 1990s

    On October 16 and 17, 1990, both houses of Congress approved a bill designed to reverse the Court's ruling. The proposed legislation not only reversed the Court's ruling in Wards Cove, but it also strengthened provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. On October 22, 1990, President George H. W. Bush vetoed the bill, claiming that its provisions would encourage employers to establish hiring quotas.