Civil Rights- Supreme Court Cases
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shastadaisies on May 9, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896. "Separate but equal" facilities are legal |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | 1954. "Separate but equal" doctrine is unconstitutional. Overturned Plessy. A second Brown v. Board case a year later (1955) determined that desegregation should occur with "all due process and deliberate speed" in response to southern states' refusal to integrate. |
| Heart of Atlanta Hotel v. United States | 1964. Places of "public accommodation" like a hotel may not discriminate, per the Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| Katzenbach v. McClung | 1964. The Commerce Clause giving Congress the power to regulate interstate trade makes the Civil Rights Act (1964) apply to almost all private businesses. |
| Regents of California v. Bakke | 1978. Quotas for racial minority acceptance in to colleges violate the Fourteenth Amendment and constitute reverse discrimination. However, taking race in to account is constitutional. |
| Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger | 2003. Generally upheld Bakke. Similar cases involving a scoring system for acceptance in to the University of Michigan. Determined that a point-based system was too similar to using quotas, but that, again, race could be one of many factors. |
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