"A People's History of the Supreme Court" is by Peter Irons, who refused to serve in segregated military & was sent to jail. There, he read books by H. Zinn & wrote to him. On release, went to law school & involved with Ellsberg & Korematsu cases. More ⬇️
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Here is a thread of some @Scotus cases of note from our #tdih series, beginning with horrific Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling in 1857. Learn more ⬇️and in "Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America" by @marthasjones_ zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/dred…
After election related Colfax Massacre by white supremacists in 1873: SCOTUS ruled in U.S. v. Cruikshank in 1876 that 14th Amendment only applied to state actions and offered no protections against acts by individual citizens. #TeachReconstruction zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/colf…
In Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, SCOTUS upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities. With the pretense of 'separate but equal." Justice John Marshall Harlan was the lone dissenter. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ples…
In Lum v. Rice, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1927 that state’s rights and Plessy v. Ferguson applied to Asian American students. In the case of nine-year old Chinese-American Martha Lum, her exclusion on account of race from school was 'justified.'
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Illinois congressperson Arthur W. Mitchell was ordered to Jim Crow car in Ark. in 1937. Took case to @Scotus & won in 1941, but his political career in Chicago was over because of his having angered the white political establishment. #teachoutsidetextbook zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/mitc…
In 1944, SCOTUS ruled in Korematsu v. US that the denial of civil liberties based on race and national origin was legal.
Korematsu, a U.S. citizen, had refused to evacuate when President Roosevelt ordered the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII.
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On May 17, 1954, SCOTUS handed down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board. Decades of strategic planning and brave actions led to this historic ruling. Fight continues for implementation. Read below. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/brow…
In 1963, the ruling of Gideon v. Wainwright required states to provide counsel in criminal cases to represent defendants who are unable to afford to pay their own attorneys. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/gide…
In 1966, U.S. Supreme Court [officially] banned poll taxes for state and local elections, which had been a loophole in the 24th Amendment that had abolished poll taxes only for federal elections. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/harp…
In 2013, Shelby County v. Holder, SCOTUS invalidated a key provision of Voting Rights Act. Since then, new rules that cause voter suppression have proliferated across U.S. Students learn about this case & others in 3-lesson unit by @LadyOfSardines below. zinnedproject.org/materials/teac…
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