AA REVISION: SC cases

Griggs vs Duke Power company

1971- a HS diploma was unnecessary for getting a job

Plessy vs Ferguson

1896- segregation legalised

Browder v Gayle

1956- segregation in buses= unconstitutional

Buchanan vs Warley

1917- found voting laws illegal

Grove city vs Bell

1984- racism rules and gov funding changed- hindering.

Moore vs Dempsey

1923- couldn’t find verdict due to white jury

Miliken vs Bradley

1974- stopped bussing

Gains vs Canada

1938- separate facilities must be equal

Guinn v US

1915- Grandfather clauses unconstitutional

Regents of California Uni vs Baake

1978- discrimination in unemployment

Slaughterhouse cases

1873- narrow interpretation of 14th A

Smith vs Allright

1944- no white primary voting in Texas

Civil Rights act declared unconstitutional

1883- civil rights act 1875

Freeman vs Pitts

1992- no more segregation help due to housing patterns

Swann vs Charlotte-Mecklenburg

1971- upheld bussing

US vs Cruikshank

1876- fed government only to protect individual rights, not state rights

Green vs Connally

1971- funds withdrawn if education institutes segregated.

Brown vs Topeka Board of Education

1954- segregation in education illegal

Cummings vs Board of Education

1899- segregation in education legalised

Mississippi vs Williams

1898- Mississippi voting poll tax was constitutional.

Boynton vs Virginia

1960- interstate travel must be desegregated

Trudant vs Barnes

1933- all state appeals must be exhausted before going to SC