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mezzanineview) wrote2008-10-02 12:20 pm
mezzanineview) wrote2008-10-02 12:20 pm
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In an upcoming interview with Katie Couric to be aired this week, Sarah Palin is unable to name any Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade.
The Rules: Post info about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historic, to your lj. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) Flisters, please take the meme to your ElJay to spread the fun.
Going for a srs bsns case, and two years out of the last American Government class I've taken, I'm going with Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which dissolved the "separate but equal" rule, overturning the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson.
The bare bones history of this is that in Plessy, the Supreme Court ruled that the quality of the facilities allotted for use by black Americans were equal to those in use by white Americans (definitely not true), thus not violating their Fourteenth Amendment right, though it did perpetuate deep-seated racism. The facility in question in the case were railroad cars, separated into black and white cars. In Brown, a suit was filed against the Topeka Board of Education asking for the abolition of racial segregation. While Plessy hadn't required segregation, it did permit it. Brown overturned the ruling, which helped kick of the Civil Rights movement <3
The Rules: Post info about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historic, to your lj. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) Flisters, please take the meme to your ElJay to spread the fun.
Going for a srs bsns case, and two years out of the last American Government class I've taken, I'm going with Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which dissolved the "separate but equal" rule, overturning the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson.
The bare bones history of this is that in Plessy, the Supreme Court ruled that the quality of the facilities allotted for use by black Americans were equal to those in use by white Americans (definitely not true), thus not violating their Fourteenth Amendment right, though it did perpetuate deep-seated racism. The facility in question in the case were railroad cars, separated into black and white cars. In Brown, a suit was filed against the Topeka Board of Education asking for the abolition of racial segregation. While Plessy hadn't required segregation, it did permit it. Brown overturned the ruling, which helped kick of the Civil Rights movement <3