All Posts Tagged With: "Brown v. Board of Education"
Doc of the Day: Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, argued on April 13, 1896, and decided on May 18, 1896, is probably best known for giving the United States the separate but equal doctrine. The case probably ranks close to Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) as one of the most influential and thoroughly repudiated cases the Supreme Court has ever decided. [...]
18May2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Doc of the Day: Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared that legally mandated segregation in public schools was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause. Issued on May 17, 1954, the landmark case was actually a combination of five cases that challenged school segregation in Delaware, South Carolina, Virginia, [...]
17May2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Jonathan Rees on the Brandeis Brief from Muller v. Oregon
On February 24, 1908, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in the case of Muller v. Oregon. That case had begun three years earlier when a supervisor at the Grand Laundry in Portland, Oregon, forced a laundress and labor activist named Emma Gotcher to work overtime. That requirement violated Oregon’s ten-hour [...]
22Feb2009 | mdblogger | 2 comments | Continued
Chester Pach on Eisenhower and the Little Rock school crisis
Sometimes presidents take actions that surprise just about everybody, including themselves, and a good example is President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s decision fifty-one years ago to issue Executive Order 10730. Within hours after Eisenhower approved this document on September 24, 1957, U.S. Army troops arrived in Little Rock, Arkansas, to stop the violence that had prevented [...]
23Sep2008 | mdblogger | 1 comment | Continued