Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Racism a belief that a race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. This was something that was supposedly stop on May 17, 1954: Supreme Court unanimously outlaws segregation in public schools in Brown v. Board of Education. Also on Aug. 29, 1957: Civil Rights Act aims to increase black turnout at the polls by making it a crime to obstruct voter registration. July 2, 1964: Civil Rights Bill bans…

In 1954, the largest step toward equality for African Americans happened when the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. The impact was greater when it was the sanction of the law; for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of African Americans. Shortly following this landmark ruling, many civil rights protest…

In the United States, according to Uggen et al, there are roughly 234,564,100 people who are of voting age. However, because of the felon disenfranchising laws, about 5,852,180 people are not allowed to vote. That is approximately 2.5% or 1 out of every 40 people barred from voting because of previous or current felony conviction (Uggen et al, ). This is the highest it has been since the 1960s. Although some say that voting is a right that shouldn’t be taken away, criminals who are convicted of…

The United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal" took place in 1896 known as the Plessy vs Ferguson act. The Plessy V. Ferguson did not make it to where blacks and whites had all the same rights, but at the time, they thought that it was a good decision. Little did they know, less than a hundred years later would we be trying to integrate white and black schools. It…

Going forward on the subject of the Fourteenth Amendment we start with the Checks and Balances System. The Checks and Balances System is used to reassure that each branch of government does not get too powerful. For example the Legislative branch can put forth a bill but the Executive branch can veto the bill if found unconstitutional. Even though the Executive branch vetoed the bill the Legislative branch can override that veto and turn the bill into an amendment. More on the subject of bills…

people of color continue to be oppressed. It’s as if we are still living in the years of Plessy vs Ferguson. Yes, civil rights laws were passed but the same cultural aspects of the Plessy vs Ferguson still exist. There are many schools across the United States were mainly one race is prominent. This is all due to socio economic status. Kozal mentioned that by the age of 5 and 6 children are already labeled by their abilities, better yet by their parent’s Income tax information. This is not fair…

Carolina, and Delaware. Multitudes of black children looked for admission to public schools that required segregation based on color and race. Plaintiffs conclude that segregation was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Brown case served as a spark for the civil rights movement, inspiring education reform everywhere, and changing the legal means of challenging segregation in all areas of society. In all except for one case, a three judge federal…

In 1954, the Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board, made nationwide school integration mandatory. The first school to attempt integration was Central High School in Arkansas. Many people might not know about The Little Rock Nine, but those that do usually admire their courageous actions, which left a huge impact in American history. Despite all the discrimination they faced, The Little Rock Nine helped enforce the rights of African Americans by being the first people of color to integrate a school…

the United States, especially in the South, was in the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement. In the South, whites and all others had separated everything from each other that you can think of basically. Some examples include: restaurants, bathrooms, drinking fountains, and especially schools. Separation was still legal in most southern states so laws allowed places to practice these laws and rules and get away with it. But the Fourteenth Amendment granted equal rights, but these…

speculation to occur. Without this important piece of history, we might could still be seeing the Separate Car Act to this day. They made politics, and higher authorities think of the law they passed, and eventually began to reason with a rightful constitution, and a better humanity. These eye opening men eventually made the Southern government look at segregation in another way, and change their history for the better. Not only did they act on their feelings, they also acted on logic. When the…