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Legal Legacy
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Landmark Supreme Court cases, legal history, legal commentary, Lincoln and the Law
- Added on: Apr 15th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Jill
- Listed in: Law & Legal History
- Tags: legal supreme court history law constitution lincoln
Recent Posts
October 16, 1859 – John Brown and His Followers Seize Harpers Ferry
On October 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown (a white man known for his violent opposition to slavery) and twenty-one armed followers seized the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia). The would-be revolutiona...
June 4, 1923 – The Supreme Court Decides Meyer v. Nebraska
In Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a 1919 Nebraska law prohibiting the teaching of foreign languages to school children before high school violated the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This cas...
July 24, 1914 – Birthday of Kenneth Bancroft Clark, and The Black Doll Study
Kenneth Clark was a psychologist, educator, and social reformer who dedicated his life to the cause of racial justice. At Howard University, he led demonstrations against segregation in Washington, D.C. He also met his future wife, fellow psychology...
April 14, 1873 – The Supreme Court Decided The Slaughterhouse Cases
The Background Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. 36 (1873) (a consolidation of three law suits) was the first test of the relatively new Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution (ratified in 1870). This opinion is viewed as pivotal since it narrowly con...
Review of “A New Birth of Freedom” by Charles L. Black, Jr.
Professor Black, the former constitutional scholar, attempted, in this restatement of much of his life’s work, to put the jurisprudence of human rights on firm legal ground. Black looked to three sources for human rights: the Declaration of Indep...
June 12, 1967 – The Supreme Court Decided Loving v. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967) was a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court declared Virginia’s anti-miscegenation statutes unconstitutional, overturning Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending all race-based legal...
