2.8 Equal Protection Cases leading to Brown v. Board

Equal Protection Clause- Legal Analysis to Brown v. Board of Eduction

 

Slaughterhouse Cases Links to an external site. (1873 ) Privileges and Immunities

Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)-Race neutral law violates Equal Protection Clause

Civil Rights Cases 1883 Links to an external site. - (Civil Rights Act of 1875 struck down-allows Private Discrimination) 

Plessy v. Ferguson Links to an external site. (1896) -Separate But Equal established

Plessy v. Ferguson Links to an external site. (1896) -The Dissenting Opinion-Constitution is "Color Blind"

"Everyone knows," he wrote, "that the statute in question had its origin in the purpose, not so much to exclude white persons from railroad cars occupied by blacks, as to exclude colored people from coaches occupied by or assigned to white persons." 

"However, although he argued eloquently for a "color-blind" reading of the Constitution, Harlan, like Brown, did not advocate social equality among the races. Rather, his point of departure from the majority opinion was his belief that legally imposed segregation denied political equality."

Korematsu v. United States Links to an external site. (1944) Japanese Internment in WWII

Sweatt v. Painter Links to an external site. (1950) Desegregation of Higher Education Links to an external site.

Brown v. Board of Education Links to an external site. (1954) Inherently unequal

Brown v. Board of Education II Links to an external site.(1955)