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Black Saga Supr Cour
Black Saga Supreme Court Cases
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that slaves returning to Kentucky from Ohio had to be governed by Kentucky law. | Strader vs. Graham (1851) |
| The U.S. Supreme Court declared that blacks were not citizens of the United States, thus upholding the Fugitive Slave Law and further denying to Congress the power to proghibit slavery in any federal territory | Dred Scott vs. Sanford (1857) |
| The U.S. Supreme Court declared that state courts had no jurisdiction to free federal prisioners reversing a decision by Wisconsin State. Sherman Booth had been convicted in federal court of rescuing a fugitive slave. The Federal gov rearrested Booth. | Abelman vs. Booth (1859) |
| The U.S. Supreme Court denied punishment to person who had broken up a meeting of blacks discussing the LA election. The Court ruled that breaking up such a meeting was a crime only if the meeting concerned a national election. | United States vs. Cruikshank (1876) |
| U.S. Supreme Court decided that "the 15th amendment to the Constition does not confer the right of suffrage" but only allows the government to provide a punishment for denying the vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude | United States vs.Reese (1876) |
| The U.S. Supreme Court upheld segregation laws by deciding that "separate but equal" doctrine should be followed in cases pertaining to American blacks. The Court noted: "If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United | Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) |
| The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the grandfather clauses in Maryland and Oklahoma constitutions were unconstitutional and repugnant to the Fifteenth Amendment. | Guinn vs. United States (1915) |
| --The U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the Louisiana and Kentucky ordinances requiring blacks to live in certain sections 9f the city. All city "segregation ordinances" mandating that blacks and whites reside on separate streets and blocks wer | Buchanan vs. Warley (1917) |
| -- The .U.S. Supreme Court declared that setting unequal salaries for blacks and white teachers was unconstitutional. The decision formed the basis for a series of suits filed by the NAACP throughout the country to eliminate wage differentials between the | Gibbs v. Board of Education of Montgomery County, MD (1936) |
| The U.S. Supreme Court declared that it was illegal for whites to bar African Americans from white neighborhoods. The case involved a wealthy real-estate broker, Carl Hansberry of Chicago, who moved his family to an all white neighborhood. Lorraine Hansbe | Hansberry vs. Lee (1940) |
| This decision declared the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of "separate and equal" unconstitutional. The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas was composed of five cases When the final decision was given by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Court una | Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) |
| The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a LA law that prohibited racial segregation on public carriers. The Court noted, "If the public good requires such legislation, it must come from Congress and not the states." The plaintiff had no right to cabin space. | Hall vs. De Cur (1878) |
| The U.S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional to exclude blacks from jury duty. The ruling was based on the 14th amendment. | Strauder vs. West Virginia (1880) |
| The U.S. Supreme Court struck down whites-only-primaries. The Court founded that "white only primaries are a denial of equal protection under the law." The case emerged from a Texas law barring blacks from voting in primary elections. | Nixon vs. Herndon (1927) |
| The U.S. Supreme Court declared that an Interstate Commerce Commission decision requiring black passengers in railroad dining cars to eat behind a curtain separating them from other passengers was unconstitutional. | Henderson vs. United States (1950) |
| The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the NAACP allegation that segregated graduate schools were unconsitutional and against the "equal protection" clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court ordered the black law student to be admitted to the Law School. | Sweatt vs. Painter |
| THe U.S. Supreme Court declared that once a black student was admitted to a previously all-white school, there could be no distinction made on the basis of race. The court recognized that segregation was a handicap to African American students. | McLaurin vs. Oklahoma Board of Regents (1950) |
| The US Supreme Court reversed a previous ruling of the US Court of Appeals on January 22, by ruling that discrimintation in Washington, DC restaurants was illegal. It ruled 8-0 that restaurants could not legally rufuse to serve well-behaved black patrons. | District of Columbia vs. John R. Thompson Co., Inc (1954) |
| The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation in bus terminals servicing interstate passengers was a violation of the INterstate Commerce Act. | Boynton vs. Virginia (1960) |
| The US Supreme Court held that gerrymandering in the city of Tuskegee Alabama was unconstitutional and denied blacks their right to vote. Election boundaries had been drawn from a four sided square to an irregular figure, trying to exclude black voters. | Gomillion vs. Lightfoot (1961) |
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