AP US History Buschistory David Busch - Supreme Court 9 Brown V Board of Education 1954

Supreme Court 9 Brown V Board of Education 1954

10/21/17 • 8 min

This landmark case is one of the pillars of the modern Civil Rights movement. In order to overturn Plessey 1896 the NAACP needed to prove that separate could never be equal. It took Linda Brown, some dolls, and Thurgood Marshall to demonstrate the inferiority that Black America felt regardless of how "equal" the separate facility was.

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Supreme Court 7 Schenck v. The U.S.

The Russian Revolution and World War I launched the U.S. into a Red Scare. Fearing foreign influence the Espionage and Sedition Acts were passed. In essence they forbid interference with the war effort through making false statements or promoting disloyalty. Charles Schenck was the General Secretary of the U.S. Socialist party. In 1917, just when the U.S. entered World War I, he helped print and distribute over 15,000 leaflets urging men to resist the draft. He was arrested and charged with violating the Espionage Act. Sentenced to ten years in prison he appealed to the Supreme Court who upheld the conviction.

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This cases deals with the Establishment Clause of religion as outlined in the First Amendment to the US Constitution. Can the government mandate a voluntary prayer in schools? While seemingly obvious - the Supreme court decided that the "voluntary prayer" violated the First Amendment. 6-1 decision

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