The document summarizes key Supreme Court cases related to civil rights in the United States:
Brown v. Board of Education ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturning the separate but equal doctrine. This landmark decision helped spur the civil rights movement.
Miranda v. Arizona established that suspects must be informed of their Fifth Amendment rights prior to questioning. As a result, police are now required to read suspects their "Miranda rights" before obtaining statements admissible in court.
The 15th Amendment guaranteed the right of all citizens to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This helped protect voting rights for newly emancipated African Americans.
The 19th
This is a Powerpoint presentation that explains the history of segregation in the US. It is an important tool as it illustrates the background of racial tension that can exist today and open dialogue to create change and more progressive attitudes towards race. It helps promote diversity as the injustices of segregation call us all to look at our own biases. It also bolsters diversity, as Powerpoint accommodates many types of learners, both audio and visual. Powerpoint is an important technological tool to use in a class room, providing audio and visual help to students. This presentation illustrates my understanding of the program. I have uploaded this Powerpoint to a shared slide site, which further shows my comfort with the Internet in this age of technology.
A brief look at the basics of the Brown v Board of Eduction, Topeka, Kansas, that ended segregation of public schools in the United States "with all deliberate speed."
This is a Powerpoint presentation that explains the history of segregation in the US. It is an important tool as it illustrates the background of racial tension that can exist today and open dialogue to create change and more progressive attitudes towards race. It helps promote diversity as the injustices of segregation call us all to look at our own biases. It also bolsters diversity, as Powerpoint accommodates many types of learners, both audio and visual. Powerpoint is an important technological tool to use in a class room, providing audio and visual help to students. This presentation illustrates my understanding of the program. I have uploaded this Powerpoint to a shared slide site, which further shows my comfort with the Internet in this age of technology.
A brief look at the basics of the Brown v Board of Eduction, Topeka, Kansas, that ended segregation of public schools in the United States "with all deliberate speed."
As the Revolution moves to the Southern colonies, the war becomes a civil war. Eventually, thanks to some luck and the French fleet, Washington and Lafayette force a surrender.
As the Revolution moves to the Southern colonies, the war becomes a civil war. Eventually, thanks to some luck and the French fleet, Washington and Lafayette force a surrender.
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Plessy v. Ferguson and Miranda v. Arizona
Two landmark rulings made by the Supreme Court involve the cases of Plessy v. Ferguson and Miranda v. Arizona. In both rulings the impact to society was great with one resulting in the segregation of African American citizen for the next fifty years while the other affected the way law enforcement officers’ question and interrogate criminal offenders. While both of these cases occurred in two different centuries the ruling of the court had a direct impact on functions in American society and the rights of the individual citizen. In Plessy the rights of the African American where limited but in the case of Miranda individual rights were broadened.
Plessy vs. Ferguson
In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson the case began when an African American male who was half white and appeared white went against a Louisiana law that requires separate accommodations for separate races. Homer Plessy was a member of a group in New Orleans known as the Citizens Committee that fought for the equal right of the African American citizen. The Citizens Committee decided to test a Louisiana Law known as the 1890 Louisiana Separate Car Act. When Homer Plessy entered the train and took accommodations in the white section of the railcars he was detained by a police officer and held in a separate car until he was arrested upon exiting the train. Plessy was charged with breaching Louisiana Law and was jailed and fined.
On appeal the Louisiana Appeals Court ruled declared forced segregation in railroad cars traveling between states to be unconstitutional (Wolf, 2011). The case was then appealed to the Louisiana Supreme Court that upheld the ruling of the district court and found the state had a right to establish laws that provide separate but equal accommodations. The case was then appealed for the last time when it went in front of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state and the laws concerning the segregation of the White and African American citizen was not addressed for over sixty years when the Supreme Courts ruling was reversed in the case of Brown vs. Board of Education.
When the Plessy case was brought in front of the Supreme Court by the defendant and the members of the Citizens Committee the claim was the defendant was denied his Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendment rights. Plessy claimed that the 1890 Louisiana Separate Car Act violated his Thirteenth Amendment right against involuntary servitude. In other Plessy was claiming that by being forced into separate accommodations he was being placed in involuntary servitude. The court ruled that the Thirteenth Amendment did not apply to segregation so the defendants Thirteenth Amendment right could not have been violated.
Under the Fourteenth Amendment the defendant, Plessy, claimed he was denied the right to equal protection.
2. The Brown v. Board of education case was a case of civil rights. The case came about because a black girl had to walk a mile away to get to her black elementary school when she lived just down the road from a white school that wouldn't accept her. The point of the case was to try and take a stand against segregation especially in the public schools. The ruling on the case was that there could be no more segregation in the public schools. From this ruling legislation was put into place and a stand against segregation was made that day.
4. The Miranda v. Arizona was a case involving the fifth amendment. The case was trying to prove that suspects need to be informed of their rights in order not to give incriminating evidence against themselves. Miranda was charged with molesting a young girl and was convinced to give a confession to the police without his lawyer and without being aware of his rights. He took it to court to prove that the information gained was unusable against him in court because he was not informed of his rights. Because of this case, from then on officers were required to give every suspect their "Miranda Rights" in order to use confessions and the suspects words against them in court.
6. The 15th Amendment was put in place to ensure that all Americans were able to vote and nothing could take that away from them. This amendment was made to ensure all citizens black white or Hispanics could vote. The reasons this amendment was put into place was to ensure that the minorities were not threatened or kept from voting at any time and that all men had the same right to vote on any election at any time.
8. The 19th Amendment was to ensure women's rights were the same as men's. The reason this amendment was made was to ensure that all women had all the same rights as all men did. They pursued putting this into place because it wasn't fair for the women of america not to be able to work or vote when the constitution says we all have the same rights. There were many women who strongly urged and protested this idea for many years. Because of this Amendment now not only could African Americans vote but Both white and black women could vote too. This meant that more than half the population could vote now. Or at least hypothetically.