Our country’s past is full of heartache, promising times, and achievements. The Civil Right Movement had its perks and downfall in our country. Imagine us taken twenty steps forward, just to fall fifteen steps backward when trying to get equal rights for everyone. In my assignment, I will be discussing some of the events that occurred in this era of time and including some of my knowledge of them. I will be breaking up my events into three sections, going from the cases of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Right Act of 1965 and lastly Affirmative Action. These cases had a tremendous impact on the Civil Right Movement, they opened doors for the issues
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In addition to Martin Luther King speeches for their civil rights, The Commerce Clause from Article one, section eight open the doors to the success they made. The Clause allowed Congress to regulate and restrict state laws that interfere or discriminate against interstate commerce. In the passing of the Civil Rights Act, it prohibited racial segregation and discrimination in public accommodation under the interstate commerce. Also, the act banned employment discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion or national origin. This did help tremendously, but some Caucasians still did not see the point, who treated African Americans poorly, which was against the …show more content…
Affirmative Action helps the people who are born in low standards get the same as someone of a higher class and when getting a job. In addition to, it designed policies and actions to make up for the time of discrimination towards specific races, ethnic, and sexual groups. During 1978, the case Regents of the University of California v. Bakke took place due to Bakke not being allowed to go to the medical school, violating his Fourteenth Amendment. This affirmative action case stated race could be taken into consideration for admissions decisions if the institution does not set aside a specific number of seat, where only minorities were accepted. Justice Powell allowed for Bakke to be admitted to the medical school. After that policy came to light from Affirmative Action, many African Americans and Hispanics were going to colleges and becoming what no one thought they could be. Roughly after twenty-five years, we came to the case of Grutter v. Bollinger, where Bollinger was denied admittance due to the law school taking in the race of people as a factor. The court upheld Bakke’s case, allowing Affirmative Action that takes race into consideration, but not in a mechanical way. Mainly, the University of Michigan Law school was saying, they do take in the schooling of each student but race plays a big factor
In addition to Martin Luther King speeches for their civil rights, The Commerce Clause from Article one, section eight open the doors to the success they made. The Clause allowed Congress to regulate and restrict state laws that interfere or discriminate against interstate commerce. In the passing of the Civil Rights Act, it prohibited racial segregation and discrimination in public accommodation under the interstate commerce. Also, the act banned employment discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion or national origin. This did help tremendously, but some Caucasians still did not see the point, who treated African Americans poorly, which was against the …show more content…
Affirmative Action helps the people who are born in low standards get the same as someone of a higher class and when getting a job. In addition to, it designed policies and actions to make up for the time of discrimination towards specific races, ethnic, and sexual groups. During 1978, the case Regents of the University of California v. Bakke took place due to Bakke not being allowed to go to the medical school, violating his Fourteenth Amendment. This affirmative action case stated race could be taken into consideration for admissions decisions if the institution does not set aside a specific number of seat, where only minorities were accepted. Justice Powell allowed for Bakke to be admitted to the medical school. After that policy came to light from Affirmative Action, many African Americans and Hispanics were going to colleges and becoming what no one thought they could be. Roughly after twenty-five years, we came to the case of Grutter v. Bollinger, where Bollinger was denied admittance due to the law school taking in the race of people as a factor. The court upheld Bakke’s case, allowing Affirmative Action that takes race into consideration, but not in a mechanical way. Mainly, the University of Michigan Law school was saying, they do take in the schooling of each student but race plays a big factor