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Rights and Race in Contemporary US Politics Reorder

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  • The Fifteenth Amendment stops any citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of race or colour.
  • The Supreme Court decision in the case of Regents of the University of California v Bakke allows affirmative action under limited circumstances.
  • The Dred Scott v Sandford case determines that the Supreme Court has no power to ban slavery in the United States. 
  • The decision in the Supreme Court case of Brown v Topeka Board of Education overturns Plessy v Ferguson and the mantra of separate but equal in US schools, which slowly begin to desegregate.
  • The Fourteenth Amendment is passed, revoking the Three-fifths Compromise and guaranteeing that all Americans are equal. It also includes the due process and equal rights clause, which will be cited in many Supreme Court Cases which follow.
  • Congress bans new slaves from coming into the United States but allows existing slavery to continue.
  • The decision in the Plessy v Ferguson case effectively allows segregation of white and black people to continue under the mantra of 'separate but equal facilities'. This leads to the 'Jim Crow' laws in the American South.
  • Martin Luther King's leadership of peaceful protests forces the US government to act and pass meaningful civil rights legislation, which it does under President Johnson.
  • The Three-fifths Compromise is passed, allowing slaves to be counted as three fifths of a free person for the purposes of tax and determining the populations of the states.
  • The Thirteenth Amendment is passed, abolishing slavery officially and constitutionally in the United States.
  • The American Civil War leads to the eventual abolition of slavery in the United States.

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