Court+Cases+Pertaining+to+Civil+Rights


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=Court Cases Pertaining to Civil Rights=

This topic is a civil rights issue because civil rights doesn't just mean African American, Indian, or Japanese rights it means the rights of the people. Civil means "citizen" and civil rights means "the rights of a citizen, especially those guaranteed to all citizens of the United States, regardless of race, color, or sex, by the Bill of Rights, the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th amendments to the Constitution, and certain acts of Congress." Some people who think or know that their rights are being denied bring the matter to court where it is decided if their problem is protected by the amendments. Read on about what we learned in researching this topic and either learn or review about the court cases that argue about civil rights.



The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court at the federal level. A court case only goes to the Supreme Court if it has already been tried in the lower courts. Even then, the Supreme Court does not have to hear the particular case. However, many of the important civil rights cases did go to the Supreme Court level. For instance, Tinker vs. DesMoines upheld the right of students to protest (the right of free speech) and Reed vs. Reed which overturned a decision that discriminated based on gender.
 * **Important People/Events/Court Cases** [[image:f16b1234.jpg width="535" height="438" align="right"]]
 * Earl Warren
 * Charlton Heston
 * Tinker vs. Deso Moines
 * Brown v. Board of Education
 * Plessy v. Ferguson
 * Warren Court
 * Plessy v. Ferguson
 * Warren Court