EOC Supreme Court Cases

1896 established the separate but equal doctrine

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Tinker v Des Moines

• White v Regester

• Brown v Board of Education

1954 separate but equal has NO place in public education. led to integration of public schools

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Tinker v Des Moines

• White v Regester

• Brown v Board of Education

1969 Have the right to express yourself as long as the action does not disrupt class work, school activities, or invade the rights of others

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Tinker v Des Moines

• White v Regester

• Brown v Board of Education

1973 Shaped litigation over gerrymandering redistricting plans

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Tinker v Des Moines

• White v Regester

• Brown v Board of Education

1972 1st Amendment's free exercise of religion prevents a state from making Amish children attend school past the 8th Grade

• Wisconsin v Yoder

• Mendez v Westminster

• Delgado v Bastrop ISD

• Sweatt v Painter

1946 1st case to hold that school segregation itself was illegal because the resources and quality were inferior, not because they were segregated

• Wisconsin v Yoder

• Mendez v Westminster

• Delgado v Bastrop ISD

• Sweatt v Painter

1948 left segregation of African American students (because it was a state law) and allowed separate 1st grade classes for "language deficient" students

• Wisconsin v Yoder

• Mendez v Westminster

• Delgado v Bastrop ISD

• Sweatt v Painter

1950 court ruled in favor of Sweatt. UT law school failed to create school equal to it status in faculty members, university facilitates, and student progress. Paved the way for Brown v Board of Education

• Wisconsin v Yoder

• Mendez v Westminster

• Delgado v Bastrop ISD

• Sweatt v Painter

1954 14th Amendment protects other races/ethnicity when trial by jury

• Hernandez v Texas

• Brown v Board of Education

• Edgewood ISD v Kirby

• California v Bakke

(1978), the Supreme Court ruled that a university's use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process was unconstitutional, but a school's use of "affirmative action" to accept more minority applicants was constitutional in some circumstances.

• California v Bakke

• Roe V Wade

• Escobedo v Illinois

• Edgewood ISD v Kirby