Argued February 26, 1974. Decided April 23, 1974. After being denied admission to a state-operated law school, petitioner brought this suit on behalf of himself alone for injunctive relief, claiming that the school’s admissions policy racially discriminated against him in violation of the Equal Protection … Read More(1974) DeFunis v. Odegaard
THE BLACK AGENDA The Gary Declaration: Black Politics at the Crossroads Introduction The Black Agenda is addressed primarily to Black people in America. It rises naturally out of the bloody decades and centuries of our people’s struggle on these shores. It flows from the most … Read More(1972) Gary Declaration, National Black Political Convention
December 14, 1970, Argued March 8, 1971, Decided MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. [1]We granted the writ in this case to resolve the question whether an employer is prohibited by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII, from requiring … Read More(1971) Griggs v. Duke Power Co.
Marquette Frye, whose arrest sparked the Watts Riots in 1965, was born in Oklahoma but grew up in rural Hanna, Wyoming. The family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1957, when Marquette was 13. By the age of 16, Marquette was struggling to adjust to … Read MoreMarquette Frye (1944-1986)
REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ON CIVIL DISORDERS SUMMARY OF REPORT INTRODUCTION The summer of 1967 again brought racial disorders to American cities, and with them shock, fear and bewilderment to the nation. The worst came during a two-week period in July, first in … Read More(1967) National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (The Kerner Report)
WARREN, C.J., Opinion of the Court SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES ________________________________________ 388 U.S. 1 Loving v. Virginia APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA ________________________________________ No. 395 Argued: April 10, 1967 — Decided: June 12, 1967 ________________________________________ MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN … Read More(1967) Loving v. Virginia
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Under and by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, it is ordered as follows: PART I—-NONDISCRIMINATION IN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT Section 101. It is the policy of … Read More(1965) Executive Order 11246
The Negro Family: The Case For National Action Office of Policy Planning and Research United States Department of Labor March 1965 ________________________________________ Two hundred years ago, in 1765, nine assembled colonies first joined together to demand freedom from arbitrary power. For the first century we … Read More(1965) The Moynihan Report: The Negro Family, the Case for National Action
AN ACT To enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act shall be known as the … Read More(1965) The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Document Number: PL 88-352 Date: 02 JUL 64 88th Congress, H. R. 7152 An Act To enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the … Read More(1964) Civil Rights Act of 1964
