5fish
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Here is the time line...
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1873: Bradwell v. Illinois rejected a woman’s claim that the Fourteenth Amendment required the state to allow her to practice law in the first sex discrimination case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court
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1850: Roberts v. City of Boston (Massachusetts) found no constitutional impediment to segregated schools
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1875: Minor v. Happersett (Missouri) held that a state could constitutionally forbid a woman from voting
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1906: Hodges v. United States (Arkansas) reversed a conviction against whites who had ejected “citizens of the United States of African descent” from their jobs; the decision narrowed the congressional civil rights authority under the Thirteenth Amendment
Legal Timeline - The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom | Exhibitions - Library of Congress
Legal timeline of civil rights from 1640-1896.
www.loc.gov
Some Snips for it...
1873: Bradwell v. Illinois rejected a woman’s claim that the Fourteenth Amendment required the state to allow her to practice law in the first sex discrimination case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court
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1850: Roberts v. City of Boston (Massachusetts) found no constitutional impediment to segregated schools
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1875: Minor v. Happersett (Missouri) held that a state could constitutionally forbid a woman from voting
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1906: Hodges v. United States (Arkansas) reversed a conviction against whites who had ejected “citizens of the United States of African descent” from their jobs; the decision narrowed the congressional civil rights authority under the Thirteenth Amendment
