Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

When this biased districting was found, the court decided to redo the redistricting and shift part of one district to the other so that there would be equal representation of each party (Supreme Court Justices). Although redistricting based on party affiliation is important, it is not always the main cause. “While partisan gerrymanders have been accepted by the courts, racial ones have not. The Voting Rights Act requires map makers to consider race to a point” (Supreme Court Justices). Race…

Racism is a popular theme in Southern Fiction. One can not think of the American South without thinking of slavery, Jim Crow Laws, or the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s. The South had created its own social hierarchy, one that it had fought for in the Civil War and one that it would claim to for nearly a hundred years after the war was over. Two authors that explore this idea of the social hierarchy of the south are Flannery O’Connor in her short story, “The Displaced Person”, and Harper…

accommodations for white and non-white passsengers of the train cars. This lead to the Plessy v. Ferguson case because when Plessy was prosecuted he claimed that his 13th and 14h amendment rights were being violated. In the Brown v. Board of Education case Linda Brown and her family went to court claiming that her 14th amendment right…

In 1993 there was a court case was brought into the light in reference to whether or not schools should be allowed to send students outside of the district to fulfill their educational needs. The case was called Oberti v. Board of Education and the plaintiff was Rafael Oberti who was an eight year old boy with down syndrome who was being told he needed to go to a school forty-five minutes away instead of the local school. The defendant was the Clementon, NJ Board of Education, who were the…

1950s America was a very difficult time for African American communities. Segregation was at its peak, and the country as a whole was experiencing growing pains while trying to make acceptance of African Americans a common way of life. During this time many court cases had been filed in attempts to help move this progression further along. One of the court cases involved is known as Brown V Board of Education. Brown V Board of Education involved an African American man by the name of Oliver…

Elliott. In the beginning, they wanted only to get school buses for the African American schools. The more it went on they started to want to get rid of racial issues in general. They claimed that the racial tensions in schools violated the 14th amendment. They had argued that all schools should be equal no matter what race you are. When the court case was filed people were petitioning for it to go through. The court ruled against…

Efforts to desegregate public schools have been presence since 1954. The efforts were the outcomes of the opinions of the Supreme Court based on the way it interpreted the Equal Protection Clause, which is part of the Fourteenth Amendment. Some of the controversial cases in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1950 include Brown v. Board of Education, New Count School Board v. Green, and Swam v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education asserted the need for public schools to avoid any intentional segregation…

compensate for women. At most MUW policy perpetuated the serotyped view of nursing as an exclusively women’s jobs. The state failed to achieve there alleged objective by creating a discriminatory school. The last argument addresses MUW admission statement violates Title IX of education amendment in the equal protection clause. Title IX education amendment reads, “ The Educational Amendment of 1972, prohibiting sex discrimination in any education program or activity receiving Federal financial…

How did the civil rights act of 1954 affect me today? By: Tiara Smith The civil rights act of 1954 affected me by desegregating schools, public places, and the workplace. The act also outlawed employers to discriminate against me because of color, race, religion, sex, or nationality. Today I am able to go to any institution a white person can. My school today has a student body of 2000. 65% of the students are Asian, 15% are black, 10% are Hispanic, 5% are white, 2% native, 3%…

Government CBA 5/6/16 Fisher v. University of Texas-Austin Fisher v. University of Texas, (2013), is a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the affirmative action admittance policy of the University of Texas-Austin. The Supreme Court overruled the lower appellate court's ruling that favored the University and protracted the case, holding that the lower court had not applied the standard of strict scrutiny, articulated in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) and Regents of the University…