"In 2000, 12 Hispanics who scored between a 159-160 on the LSAT and earned a GPA of 3.00 or higher applied for admission [to the University of Michigan Law School] and only 2 were admitted. ... In the same court case, it was stated by Michigan Law School's expert that "in 2000, 35 percent of underrepresented minority applicants were admitted. ... Although these statistics may have seemed compelling for an argument against affirmative action use, the Supreme Court ruled that Michigan Law School was still allowed to consider race in its applicants for the sake of obtaining the educational...

• Word Count: 2129
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These laws were designed to control and suppress the freedom of blacks. ... These rules were called Jim Crow Laws. ... The Jim Crow Laws were the most immoral laws supported by the US legislation in history. ... In New Orleans, a law was adopted which segregated black and white prostitutes. ... Today, select schools in the south are segregated. ...

• Word Count: 1719
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

School Desegregation Racial discrimination has been highly evident throughout the course of US history. ... Board of Education of Topeka, seventeen states had implemented a segregation law that permitted schools to separate black and white students; these were mainly the Southern states. The trial stated that the segregation of the schools was unconstitutional since it violated the fourteenth amendment of the constitution. ... Society started to accept different races and ethnicities more and the schools started to integrate students in order to unify them. ... The graph indicated that th...

• Word Count: 372
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Take for example Cheryl Hopwood, a woman who applied for admission to the University of Texas Law School in 1992. ... She boasted a 3.8 grade point average and a high Law School Aptitude Test score. ... The University of Texas Law School was taken to court and proved that it simply did not take individual grades and merit into account, but it evidently lower standards for all minority applicants. ... The University of California Berkley School of Law admitted every black with a grade point average of 3.5 and Law School Admission Test of ninety or above, but only 42% of whites with equ...

• Word Count: 2502
• Approx Pages: 10

Board of Education of Topeka, seventeen states had implemented a segregation law that permitted schools to separate black and white students; these were mainly the Southern states. The trial stated that the segregation of the schools was unconstitutional since it violated the fourteenth amendment of the constitution. ... Society started to accept different races and ethnicities more and the schools started to integrate students in order to unify them. ... The graph indicated that the Northern states were more tolerant of school desegregation when compared with the South. ...

• Word Count: 373
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many laws in the 1930s were racist, and allowed many dreadful things to happen. ... Lainer" This shows the law didn't protect harmful acts from being done to black people, at the time of the novel. ... The disgracefully equipped "Great Faith Elementary school" is a school in the book for black students only. ... There was no school bus, so pupils had to walk miles, just to get to school. Along with this, the white school (Jefferson Davis Country school) bus purposely splashed the black students. ...

• Word Count: 824
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

He says "In equality declared by our fathers in 1776, and made the fundamental law of Massachusetts in 1780, was Equality before the law". ... The black and white are not equal before the law. ... The decision of the Brown case not only desegregated schools, but showed Americans the Blacks finally had equality in the law. ... In addition there were few black schools in the south. ... The idea of equality before the law, proof of the inequality in the school systems, and feelings of congress's duty to protect blacks 13th, 14th and 15th amendments all contributed to the victory. ...

• Word Count: 680
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Society has comes a long way from having segregated schools, bathrooms, and drinking fountains, but it isn't enough. ... Unfortunately, the introduction of collaboration between local police and immigration law enforcement has not made communities as safe as intended. Tensions between police officers and community members increase, as does the distrust people feel towards law enforcement (Grigsby). Not only does this collaboration increase tensions and distrust but, as CounterPunch puts it, "It is easy to imagine the [collaboration between police and immigration law enforcement] wi...

• Word Count: 1143
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Often good intentions passing into law to benefit the "total" America are misinterpreted by intelligent law makers and manipulated to award personal gain and find ways to dodge the laws, especially the laws that affect their financial future. ... The problem that schools are learning the hard way is the law supports preferential treatment, not quotas. ... Bollinger involving University of Michigan's law school, and Grotz vs. ... The law school is ____ up to for highly qualified White students were not accepted into the law program but black, less qualified students were accepted...

• Word Count: 1980
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In 1924 she enrolled in Mongomery Industrial School for Girls known as "Miss White's School". All schools she attended were all black schools with white women as teachers. In 1929 Rosa leaves school to take care of her ill grandmother. ... In the summer of 1955 she attends a workshop in Highlander Folk school in Monteagle, Tennessee. ... A white male got on the bus and saw there were no more seats in the white section so her decided to take Rosa's seat she refused and the driver called the police and Rosa was arrested and found guilty of violating segregation laws and fined $14.The s...

• Word Count: 612
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Norma was schooled and in training to become a teacher. William dropped out of school after elementary school, but could read and write very well. ... Separate, but, supposable, equal, was the law of the land. ... He was suspended from school more times he could count. ... He then focused on Law. ...

• Word Count: 4823
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This act led to the Jim Crow laws which separated the whites from the blacks. This law meant that based on one's skin tone there should be separate bathrooms, schools, restaurants, water fountains and transportation. ... Laws  Brown v. ... There were only four schools for black kids, while there were 18 for white students. In this case, NAACP wanted to allow the school system to become one by integrating blacks and whites in one school system. ...

• Word Count: 1072
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The 14th amendment granted them equal protection under the law. ... Many of these laws were put in place specifically to hinder black voting. ... These laws included such things as the Grandfather Clause. ... The public schools were funded by property taxes. ... As a result of the March, President Kennedy proposed a new civil rights law. ...

• Word Count: 1907
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Earlier, these mission schools could use a system where they could freely and equally govern themselves, but after the Bantu educational law legislated, it separated blacks entirely from whites and provided apartheid in education. ... However, the Bantu education schools was experienced really hard times in terms of lacking resources, because the government had no care and attention to these schools. ... In Bantu education schools, there were rather big ratio of students in each classroom comparing with the size of the school, not to mention how ruined school buildings were. ... In addition to...

• Word Count: 2834
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One of the strongest arguments that had been used to disprove of all these statement had been that "You can't ask whites as a class to bear the responsibly for statistical disparities, unless you can prove the whites were purposely excluding blacks ) (p287) Basically we can imply that the 14th amendment and other laws that stated "separate but equal" had been the laws on the books, but laws in action or rather the lack of laws in action had been totally absent from social reality of black people. ... The Supreme Court finally acknowledged that school segregation was completely unconstit...

• Word Count: 793
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The first major change was the desegregation of schools in 1954. ... The first school to be integrated was Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas. ... He went so far as to close all the Little Rock schools for over a year to keep out blacks. ... Today nearly all schools are integrated and most students could not imagine being segregated. ... She was arrested and charged with the violation of the segregation law. ...

• Word Count: 798
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Another problem which was a significant disadvantage was the Jim Crow laws, named after a black character in a programme in that year. ... The other major problem was the schooling under the Jim Crow laws. Although some black people had broken off and started their own schools they soon ran out of funds and were forced to shut. The black students were then forced to attend a white school. ... There were a lot of economical, political and social disadvantages made out by Jim Crow laws. ...

• Word Count: 627
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

A slave was considered by law as property and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by a free person. ... Supreme Court, directed a carefully constructed legal campaign against Southern segregation laws. These laws separated blacks and whites in such areas of public life as schools, restaurants, drinking fountains, bus stations, and public transportation. ... Oliver Brown, an African American railroad worker in Topeka, Kansas, sued the Topeka Board of Education for not allowing his daughter, Linda Brown, attend Sumner Elementary School, an all white school near his home. ... B...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6

This was because, since women did not have the right to vote they had no influence on common law, work related laws and contract laws to name but a few. ... The marital and property laws supported the idea that women were the inferior sex. ... Even the common and contract law was the same. ... Girls were educated in a variety of informal ways from factory schools for factory workers to home teaching from parents to fee-paying schools run by older women. ... Schools like North London Collegiate School for Ladies and Cheltenham Ladies College allowed women to get the sort of education needed...

• Word Count: 4726
• Approx Pages: 19

One of the most common places to find a drinking fountain is in a school, whether it be a grammar school or a high school. ... The main laws he was fighting were the Jim Crow laws. ... Before the movement there were completely separate schools for blacks and whites. The black schools were usually just old run down homes in the middle of nowhere. After integration the blacks were allowed admission into the previously all white schools. ...

• Word Count: 765
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In 1952, black schools were quite inferior to white schools. A South Carolina school teacher went to the superintendent of schools and asked if some changes could be made to equalize the schools. ... This still made many black people feel inferior because they did not have the same opportunists as white people did despite what the law stated. ... Supreme Court could come up with was to separate the races and to ensure that everyone would receive equitable treatment under the law. This law was hard to enforce since many white people in power did not want black people to be equal to them so they...

• Word Count: 1380
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Going to grammar school with white children was obviously a step in the right direction as far as Paul's education because the education he was to receive at that institution would be better one then he would receive at an all black school. ... Paul often brought home straight A's, he was a member of his high schools debate team, often acted in plays and was the regarded as one of the best high school orators in the town. ... While in his first year of College he lived in the dormitory alone because of segregation laws that were still in effect but Paul used this to his advantage bec...

• Word Count: 1652
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Jim Crow laws were a big reason why the African Americans moved. These laws legalized discrimination and local segregation. These laws were a way for the whites to control the blacks and maintain a white supremacy in the South. ... My self growing up in Palos Verdes, which was a predominately white area when I was growing up, my high school had only 2 African Americans by the time I graduated. Today while my sisters are attending the school in Palos Verdes they see a more diversity of cultures, including the African Americans. ...

• Word Count: 558
• Approx Pages: 2

Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"" speech in comparison with George Wallace's inaugural address highlights the issue of segregation and seems to imply the philosophical views of the two men with regard to positive verses natural law, a subject's duty to obey the law, how law should or should not be used to promote the common good, the harm to others principle, and the roles paternalism, autonomy, and morality should play in determining the aims of law. ... King implies that until the morally unjust laws cease to be thrust upon generations of Negros they cannot be satisfied...

• Word Count: 2706
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is a testament to the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. that nearly every major city in the U.S. has a street or school named after him. ... In fact, some laws, called segregation laws, often limited their freedom and discriminated against them. Such laws stated that blacks could not go to the same school with whites, that they had to use separate "colored only- rest rooms and drinking fountains, enter public places such as movie theatres and waiting rooms through separate entrances form whites, and ride in a special section in the back of buses and trains. These laws grew out of a racist...

• Word Count: 3558
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School