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Terms in this set (17)Civil Rights Cases (1883) Name attached to five cases brought under the Civil Rights Act of 1875. In 1883, the Supreme Court decided that discrimination in a variety of public accommodations, including theaters, hotels, and railroads, could not be prohibited by the act because such discrimination was private discrimination and not state discrimination. Plessy v. Ferguson a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal Korematsu v. US 1944 Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans. It was not until 1988 that Congress formally apologized and agreed to pay $20,000 2 each survivor brown v board of ed 1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated. brown v board of education II Marshall's greatest victory, concerned Linda Brown and a close white school's refusal to admit her. The Court struck down segregation as unconstitutional, and chief justice Earl Warren stated that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. GA and Miss vowed total resistance to the ruling and the KKK appeared again to combat the ruling. Eisenhower was not happy with the ruling. cooper v. aaron 1958; reaffirmed (9-0) Brown v Board. Outlawing the "Separate but equal" doctrine reasserted that the U.S. Constitution's "Supremacy Clause" (Article VI, Section 2) declared a federal judge ruling could not be ignored/overruled by a Governor of a state. Heart of Atlanta Hotel v. US The court finally overturns the precedent set in 1896 by stating the national government can regulate, and prevent, segregation in public places under the interstate commerce clause. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg School District In this case, the Supreme court is going to rule that it is not enough to desegregate local schools. In places like big cities in the north where all the whites are in suburbs and blacks are in cities, you have to integrate the two schools. Local school districts start busing blacks to white schools and bus white kids to ghetto black schools. This is going to upset a lot of white folks in the north. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 declared that African Americans were entitled to "equal benefit of all laws...enjoyed by white citizens" University of California v.Bakke Declared that the UC Davis violated Bakke's rights, ruled that schools could use racial criteria as part of their admissions process so long as they did not use fixed quotas Aderand v. Pena 1995 Grutter v. Bollinger case in which Supreme Court held that University of Michigan's law school admission program was sufficiently "narrowly tailored" to consider race as a factor in admission decisions in order to achieve goal of a diverse student body Fisher V. Texas District court decides in favor of the University of Texas, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's decision. It's okay for race to play a small role in admissions process. Is to be heard by the Supreme court. Title IX A United States law enacted on June 23, 1972 that states: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School district is a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that prohibited assigning students to public schools solely for the purpose of achieving racial integration and declined to recognize racial balancing as a compelling state interest.[1] In a 5-4 opinion delivered by Chief Justice John Roberts, five justices held that the School Boards did not present any "compelling state interest" that would justify the assignment of school seats on the basis of race. Equal pay act of 1963 An amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act, this act requires equal pay for men and women doing equal work. Fair Housing act of 1969 forbids discrimination in housing and loans; helped prevent segregation Recommended textbook solutionsMagruder's American Government1st EditionSavvas Learning Co 555 solutions United States Government: Our Democracy1st EditionDonald A. Ritchie, Richard C. Remy 1,148 solutions Magruder's American Government (Texas)1st EditionDaniel M. 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