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Fourteenth Amendment

U.S. Supreme Court decision in Slaughterhouse cases began process of diluting the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court said the Fourteenth Amendment protected federal civil rights, not "Civil rights heretofore belonging exclusively to the states."

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COMMENTARY: George Floyd and the Continuing Legacy of Dred Scott

These next words, though, memorialized for all time in the High Court decision, put flesh on the bones of the pro-slavery argument: “[Blacks] had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or

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How Muhammad Ali Influenced Hip-Hop

The death of Muhammad Ali is a reminder that his political candor, distinctive voice, and outsized personality helped shape hip-hop

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans[3]) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.[4] [5] The term may also be used to include only those individuals who are descended from enslaved

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Lessons From Bush v. Gore: Every Vote Counts and Every Vote Must Be Counted

Special To The New Journal and Guide

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This Day in Black History: June 13, 1967

Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the United States Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson, becoming the first Black U.S. Supreme Court

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Racial terror: 2,000 black Americans were lynched in Reconstruction era, report says

The report, Reconstruction in America, documents more than 2,000 black victims of racial terror lynchings killed between the end of the civil war in 1865 and the collapse of federal efforts to protect the lives and voting rights of black Americans in

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Dred Scott v. Sandford

Dred Scott v. Sandford, United States Supreme Court, 1857

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Gay rights victory

In Bostock v. Clayton County, the United States Supreme Court ruled, this week, that the federal employment discrimination statute (Title VII) barred discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons in places of

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The Slaughter House Cases (1873)

? SLAUGHTER-HOUSE CASES.; THE BUTCHERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF NEW ORLEANS v. THE CRESCENT CITY LIVE-STOCK LANDING AND SLAUGHTER-HOUSE COMPANY.; PAUL ESTEBEN, L. RUCH, J. P. ROUEDE, W. MAYLIE, S. FIRMBERG, B. BEAUBAY, WILLIAM FAGAN, J. D. BRODERICK, N. SEIBEL, M. LANNES, J. GITZINGER, J. P. A

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1873

June 12, 1967: U.S. Supreme Court Invalidated Laws Prohibiting Interracial Marriage

June 12, 1967: The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be

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Fullilove v. Klutznick (1980)

November 27, 1979, Argued

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The Voting Rights Acts of 1965

AN ACT To enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other

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City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co. (1989)

? APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 87-998. Argued October 5, 1988 Decided January 23, 1989 Appellant city adopted a Minority Business Utilization Plan (Plan) requiring prime contractors awarded city construction contracts to subcontract at least 30%

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U.S. Supreme Court Rules Title VII of Civil Rights Act Protects LGBTQ Workers

In an historic and majority 6-3 decision this morning, the United States Supreme Court ruled that workplace discrimination against LGBTQ workers is prohibited by federal

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Source: GOOD BLACK NEWS

Loren Miller: Legal Crusader in the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century

In the essay below, journalist and historian Amina Hassan describes her 2015 biography of Loren Miller, a significant but understudied figure in the long twentieth century campaign for civil rights and racial

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1945

Strauder v. West Virginia (1880)

March 1, 1880, Decided; OCTOBER, 1879 Term

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1880

House bill would end controversial qualified immunity for police officers

have joined forces to introduce a bill in the House of Representatives that would eliminate the controversial doctrine of qualified immunity for police

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Evers Fight Against Injustice Lives Through Current Athletes

Evers led the march for desegregation of public schools in his home state of Mississippi as an activist following the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board decision which ruled segregated public schools were

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Anthony, Susan Brownell

Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820–1906, American reformer and leader of the woman-suffrage movement, b. Adams, Mass. daughter of Daniel Anthony, Quaker abolitionist. From the age of 17, when she was a teacher in rural New York state, she agitated for equal pay for women teachers, for coeducation, and

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Shaw v. Reno (1993)

April 20, 1993, Argued

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Aunt Jemima 1890-2020.

In fact, the most famous and highest paid performer of that genre was a Russian-born Jewish guy who was the toast of Broadway named Asa Yoelson: better known as Al

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Grutter v. Bollinger et al (2003)

No. 02-241. Argued April 1, 2003--Decided June 23, 2003

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Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver, Colorado (1973)

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Stokes, Louis (1925-2015)

Ohio’s first African American Congressman, Louis Stokes was born to Charles and Louis Stokes on February 23, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended its public schools before joining the United States Army in 1943. Stokes served in the army for three years and then attended Western Reserve

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1969

The San Fernando Valley’s Multiethnic Past: Unexpected Communities of Color in “America’s Suburb”

In the article below historian Jean-Paul R. deGuzman briefly introduces the multiethnic history of Southern California’s San Fernando Valley, a popular region that one local chronicler calls nothing less than “America’s Suburb.” The narrative that follows, part of deGuzman doctoral

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List of landmark African-American legislation

Ordinance of 1787: The Northwest Territorial Government (Northwest

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Gerrymandering - Definition and Examples in Politics

Gerrymandering is the act of drawing of congressional, state legislative or other political boundaries to favor a political party or one particular candidate for elected office. The purpose of gerrymandering is to grant one party power over another by creating districts that hold dense

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How a Supreme Court ruling changed Burke County politics

Burke County’s historically discriminatory method of electing county commissioners ended 38 years ago, July 1, 1982, when the U.S. Supreme Court found that the county’s at-large elections violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the

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Source: The True Citizen

African-American Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement began decades before 19th century that resulted in the Emancipation Proclamation. Initially, abolition of slavery was not on Abraham Lincoln’s agenda list. However, his ever increasing reliance on black soldiers to punish the rebellious states rendered him to issue the

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Timeline of the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)

May 3 – In Hernandez v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States are entitled to equal protection under the 14th Amendment to the

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