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Supreme Court Cases

Nikki Byrnes
Supreme Court Cases

Throughout history, the Supreme Court had to deal with many court cases, most of them making history. Two court cases in particular was Brown vs. board of education, dealing with segregation, and Korematsu vs. The United States, dealing with citizens' rights during wartime.
Before Brown vs. Board of Education, President Eisenhower attempted Reconstruction. Since Reconstruction failed, African Americans never achieved social or political equality. They were kept from participating in our government by the Ku Klux Klan, which was a terror group, that murdered African Americans, burned down their homes, and did whatever they had to do to keep them from voting. They were also restricted with the poll taxes, which required them to pay money to vote, and the literacy tests, which required them to read a very difficult passage. In 1896 the Supreme Court legalized segregation when it ruled in Plessy vs. Ferguson that separate but equal was legal. In......


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