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In 1846, Dred Scott and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the St. Louis Circuit Court. This suit began an eleven-year legal fight that ended in the U.S. Supreme Court, which issued a landmark decision declaring that Scott remain a slave. This decision contributed to rising tensions between the free and slave states just before the American Civil War. The records displayed in this ...

Brown V Board Of Education National Historic Site Located in Topeka, KS TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF On October 26, 1992, Congress passed Public Law 102-525 establishing Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site to commemorate the landmark Supreme Court decision aimed at ending segregation in public schools. On May 17, ...

A site dedicated to the explication of the trials of conspirators in the murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964 ...

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History of the Brown v. Board of Education case.

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The Dred Scott Decision Dred Scott was the name of an African-American slave. He was taken by his master, an officer in the U.S. Army, from the slave state of Missouri to the free state of Illinois and then to the free territory of Wisconsin. He lived on free soil for a long period of time. When the Army ordered his master to go back to Missouri, he took Scott with him back to that slave state, ...

Brown v. Board of Education I (1954), made available by The National Center for Public Policy Research's Constitution and the Courts Archive ...

Dred Scott: Introduction Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature--opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. (Abraham Lincoln) During the 1850's in the United States, Southern support of slavery and ...

Compete text of the Supreme Court decision, and all concurring and dissenting opinions.

Korematsu v. United States Decided December 18, 1944 MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court. MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER, concurring. MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, MR. JUSTICE MURPHY, and MR. JUSTICE JACKSON, dissenting. CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. CERTIORARI, 321 U.S. 760, to review the affirmance of a judgment of conviction. 1. Civilian Exclusion Order No.

Hustler Magazine, Inc. et al. v. Jerry Falwell No. 86-1278 SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 485 U.S. 46 Argued December 2, 1987 Decided February 24, 1988 Syllabus Respondent, a nationally known minister and commentator on politics and public affairs, filed a diversity action in Federal District Court against petitioners, a nationally circulated magazine and its publisher, to recover damages ...

Brown v. Board of Education Issue: Racial Segregation in Public Schools Thurgood Marshall with James Nabrit Jr. and George E.C. Hayes after their victory in the Brown v. Board of Education case before the Supreme Court, May 17, 1954. Photograph courtesy of UPI / Corbis-Bettmann Background Further Internet Study The Issue Before the Court Ruling Summary and Excerpt of Ruling Results of the Ruling ...

Dedicated to the struggle for and preservation of civil rights for multiracial individuals and interracial couples/families.

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March 1995 Invoking the Miranda Right to Counsel: The Defendant's Burden By Kimberly A. Crawford, J.D. Special Agent Crawford is a legal instructor at the FBI Academy. Beginning with the 1966 Supreme Court decision in Miranda v. Arizona, 1 law enforcement has endured three decades of court-imposed restraints on its ability to engage in custodial interrogation. The most significant of these ...

A rebuttal to Justice Scalia's dissent in the U.S. Supreme Court case Romer v. Evans ...

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Return to Documents 60 U.S. 393, 19 How. 393, 15 L.Ed. 691 DRED SCOTT, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. JOHN F. A. SANDFORD. December Term, 1856 MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY: This case has been twice argued. After the argument at the last term, differences of opinion were found to exist among the members of the court; and as the questions in controversy are of the highest importance, and the court was at that ...

HOME | FREE Wallpaper | BOOKSTORE | Search | Search Now: LIBRARY TABLE OF CONTENTS U.S. Supreme Court GRISWOLD v. CONNECTICUT, 381 U.S. 479 (1965) GRISWOLD ET AL. v. CONNECTICUT APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF ERRORS OF CONNECTICUT. Argued March 29-30, 1965 Decided June 7, 1965 MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court. Appellant Griswold is Executive Director of the Planned ...

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Masson v. New Yorker Magazine, Inc. et al. No. 89-1799 SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 501 U.S. 496 Argued January 14, 1991 Decided June 20, 1991 Syllabus Petitioner Masson, a psychoanalyst, became disillusioned with Freudian psychology while serving as projects director of the Sigmund Freud Archives, and was fired after advancing his own theories. Thereafter, respondent Malcolm, an author ...

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