Equal Protection
Today's lingering inequalities, particularly the "American dilemma" of racism, runs throughout U.S. history. Equal Protection provides readers with a historical overview of the controversies over the issue of equality, an understanding of how government-and, particularly, the courts and Congress-has reacted to these controversies, and the role these issues have played in shaping U.S. society.\ This volume follows the push for equal treatment regardless of age, gender, disabilities, economic...
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An introductory survey of the government's role in America's continuing drive for equality.
Series ForewordPreface1Introduction1The Long Road from Slavery to Integration1Compromising with the Devil2The Court and Slavery7The Civil War and the Reconstruction-Era Amendments12The End of Reconstruction21The Court Reenters the Fray27The NAACP and Its Legal Strategy29The Supreme Court Reexamines "Separate but Equal"32School Segregation before the Court35The Cooper v. Aaron and Green v. County School Board Decisions452Origins and Development51The "Tar Babies" of Equal Protection: Busing and Affirmative Action51The Burger Court55The Busing Controversy60Affirmative Action693The Twentieth Century97Equal Protection and Non-Race-Based Legislation97The Demise of "the Old Court" and the Rise of "the Modern Court"99The New Equal Protection101The Court and Legislative Apportionment105Substantive Equal Protection119The Burger Court and Fundamental Rights128The Burger Court and Sex Discrimination134The Rehnquist Court and the New Equal Protection1424Twenty-first Century Issues1575Key People, Cases, and Events1636Documents193The Declaration of Independence (1776)193Selections from the U.S. Constitution (1787)195The Missouri Compromise (1820)197Dred Scott v. Sandford (1856)198The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)204The "Freedom Amendments" (1865, 1868, 1870)205The Civil Rights Cases (1883)207Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)215Brown v. Board of Education (1954)220Brown v. Board of Education II (1955)222Cooper v. Aaron (1958)224Reynolds v. Sims (1964)227Green v. County School Board (1968)231Swann v. Board of Education (1971)233Frontiero v. Richardson (1973)239Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver (1973)243San Antonio v. Rodriguez (1973)249Milliken v. Bradley (1974)255Craig v. Boren (1976)258Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)261Rostker v. Goldberg (1981)272Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)274Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co. (1989)278Freeman v. Pitts (1992)284Shaw v. Reno (1993)288Adarand Constructors Inc., Petitioner v. Federico Pena, Secretary of Transportation, et al. (1995)292Romer v. Evans (1996)298United States v. Virginia (1996)303Gratz and Hamacher v. Bollinger (2003)309Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)313Lawrence and Garner v. Texas (2003)323Chronology335Table of Cases341Annotated Bibliography345Index361About the Author383\\
