Drumgoole -Landmark Supreme Court Cases Review

Front 1

Brown v. Board of Education

Back 1

Segregation of children in the public schools solely on the basis of race denies to black children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment

Front 2

Plessy v. Ferguson

Back 2

upheld state-imposed racial segregation. The justices based their decision on the separate-but-equal doctrine

Front 3

Hernandez Vs Texas

Back 3

was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that decided that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Front 4

Tinker v. Des Moines

Back 4

Supreme Court that the students did not lose their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech when they stepped onto school property.

Front 5

Wisconsin v. Yoder

Back 5

In a unamimous decision, the Court held that individual's interests in the free exercise of religion under the First Amendment outweighed the State's interests in compelling school attendance beyond the eighth grade

Front 6

White VS Regester

Back 6

This case the Supreme Court declared the 1970 reapportionment plan was unconstitutional for discrimination against racial and ethnic groups.

Front 7

14th Amendment

Back 7

stated all American citizens should receive equal protection under the law

Front 8

separate but equal

Back 8

The doctrine that racial segregation is constitutional as long as the facilities provided for blacks and whites are roughly equal.

Front 9

1st Amendment

Back 9

Guarantees the freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition

Front 10

reapportionment

Back 10

the process by which congressional districts are redrawn and seats are redistributed among states in the house.

Front 11

equal protection

Back 11

A phrase in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution requiring that states guarantee the same rights, privileges, and protections to all citizens.