Equal protection : rights and liberties under the law / Francis Graham Lee.
| Author/creator | Lee, Francis Graham |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, ©2003. |
| Description | xxxii, 383 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Series | America's freedoms America's freedoms. ^A511820 |
| Contents | Introduction. The long road from slavery to integration ; Compromising with the devil ; The Court and slavery ; The Civil War and the Reconstruction-era amendments ; The end of Reconstruction ; The Court reenters the fray ; The NAACP and its legal strategy ; The Supreme Court reexamines "separate but equal" ; School segregation before the Court ; The Cooper v. Aaron and Green v. County School Board decisions ; Conclusion -- Origins and development. The "tar babies" of equal protection: busing and affirmative action ; The Burger Court ; The busing controversy ; Affirmative action ; Conclusion -- The twentieth century. Equal protection and non-race-based legislation ; The demise of "the Old Court" and the rise of "the Modern Court" ; The new equal protection ; The Court and legislative apportionment ; Substantive equal protection ; The Burger Court and fundamental rights ; The Burger Court and sex discrimination ; Conclusion -- Twenty-first century issues -- Key people, cases, and events -- Documents. The Declaration of Independence (1776) ; Selections from the U.S. Constitution (1787) ; The Missouri Compromise (1802) ; Dred Scott v. Sandford (1856) ; The Emancipation Proclamation (1863) ; The "freedom amendments" (1865, 1868, 1870) ; The Civil Rights Cases (1883) ; Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) ; Brown v. Board of Education (1954) ; Brown v. Board of Education II (1955) ; Cooper v. Aaron (1958) ; Reynolds v. Sims (1964) ; Green v. County School Board (1968) ; Swann v. Board of Education (1971) ; Frontiero v. Richardson (1973) ; Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver (1973) ; San Antonio v. Rodriguez (1973) ; Milliken v. Bradley (1974) ; Craig v. Boren (1976) ; Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) ; Rostker v. Goldberg (1981) ; Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) ; Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co. (1989) ; Freeman v. Pitts (1992) ; Shaw v. Reno (1993) ; Adarand Constructors Inc., petitioner v. Federico Peña, Secretary of Transportation, et al. (1995) ; Romer v. Evans (1996) ; United States v. Virginia (1996) ; Gratz and Hamacher v. Bollinger (2003) ; Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) ; Lawrence and Garner v. Texas (2003) -- Chronology. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-359) and index. |
| LCCN | 2003020751 |
| ISBN | 1576078507 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | KF4755 .L438 2003 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |