Chia Hsu (0813642) 18 May 2014 Current Events McShane, Michael Q. “Brown v. Board of Education anniversary: Our unfulfilled promise African-American kids” www.foxnews.com FOX News. Published May 17, 2014 According to Michael Q McShane, the Catholic school Saint Jude Educational Institute in the state Alabama is going to close at the end of this school year. This Catholic school is located at the heart of the African American community of the city, and in the civil right movement it was an
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the establishment of the Peace Corps, and the United States’s inclusion in the Korean War demonstrate liberty. Other events, like the Brown v. Board of Education court case, the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 demonstrates America’s core value of equality. And still more events, like World War II, the Miranda v. Arizona court case, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott demonstrates
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America more than any other decisions and also highlight the gradual development of equal rights in the United States. In 1857 when tensions over slavery ran high, the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision divided the nation into two camps – slavery and antislavery and this ultimately contributed to the Civil War in 1861. Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 was a major setback in race decisions allowing African Americans to be discriminated
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Board of Education (347 U.S. 483 decided 1954). The decision in Brown v. Board of Education expanded civil rights and overturned the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson (163 U.S. 537 decided 1896) decision that upheld state laws that required racial segregation facilities under the doctrine “separate but equal”. In Brown v. Board of Education the Warren Court held that racial segregation in facilities was inherently unequal and
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Ferguson set up the beginning of the Brown v. Board case. Plessy v. Ferguson was a case brought to the supreme court in 1896 fighting to see whether or not segregation of public facilities such as parks, schools, pools etc., were constitutional. Homer Plessy brought this to court because he refused to
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that following September, and many other states integrated such as West Virginia, Washington D.C. and Delaware. Since segregation was not not happening as fast as the court wanted, Warren created a seven paragraph decision on May 31, 1955 known as Brown II. They required schools to make a prompt and give a reasonable start to desegregation. This was an attempt to speed up segregation under different circumstances, but it ended up hurting the cause. Segregationists wanted to use this to delay integration
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lawsuit, Browder v. Gayle was filed in U. S. Federal District Court in Montgomery, Alabama on February 1, 1956. This case is virtually unknown and in name not mentioned in the Civil Rights discussion. Instead, the gains realized through the success of this case are generally attributed to other factions and individuals or events, such as Brown v. Board of Education, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Martin L. King Jr., Rosa L. Parks, and Ed Nixon. To grasp the relevance of Browder v. Gayle to American
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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. “Governor Barnett’s Declaration to the People of Mississippi.” Integrating Ole Miss a Civil Rights Milestone. Accessed November 1, 2017.http://microsites.jfklibrary.org/olemiss/controversy/doc2.html. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. “Letter from James Meredith to U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.” Integrating Ole Miss a Civil Rights Milestone. Accessed November 11, 2017. http://microsites.jfklibrary.org/olemiss/aftermath/doc4
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Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1, 78 S. Ct. 1401, 3 L. Ed. 2d 5 (1958) FACTS: Petitioner, the school board of Little Rock, Arkansas, had sought to implement a program of desegregation of children in compliance with the Brown v. Board of Education declaring state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. However, the petitioner filed a suit to the district court to suspend court orders to implement the desegregation program for a period of two and a half
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The article “The Desegregation of Higher Education, Race Conscious Admission Policies and the Federal Constitution,” was written by Taj’ullah Sky Lark in June 2012. Lark received her PHD ED at Hampton University in Virginia and is a racial justice specialist/human rights activist who has been involved in many non profit boards throughout the years. Her article was published in The Journal of Pan African Studies, an online peer reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on building a transnational community
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