Civil Rights
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Women in Law: 1953-1969
ArticleHow a small but growing number of women pursued law careers and advocated before the Supreme Court
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United States v. Wong Kim Ark
Significant CaseThe landmark Supreme Court decision that affirmed birthright citizenship as a protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
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United States v. Shipp
Significant CaseThe Supreme Court’s first and only criminal trial.
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United States v. Cruikshank
Significant CaseThe Supreme Court decision that limited the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment and weakened enforcement of federal Reconstruction policies.
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Thurgood Marshall as an Advocate
ArticleBefore he was a Supreme Court Justice, Marshall advocated for civil rights as a lawyer with the NAACP.
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Tennessee v. Ed Johnson
Significant CaseThe historic state court case where the mob lynching of a Tennessee man led to the first and only criminal trial at the Supreme Court of the United States
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Styles L. Hutchins
Life StoryThe story of a Black attorney and legislator who believed he was bound by the law to defend the innocent, to right wrongs, and to pursue justice, even at the risk of his personal safety.
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Samuel Freeman Miller
Life StoryThe frontier physician and self-taught lawyer who helped shape the interpretation of the Reconstruction Amendments as an Associate Justice on the post-Civil War Supreme Court.
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Rights, Commerce, and Reform
EraThe end of Reconstruction and the start of Industrialization led to a 50-year era where the Supreme Court addressed constitutional questions about rights, commerce, and reform.
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Noah Parden
Life StoryThe story of a Black attorney who risked his own safety defending Ed Johnson and, in doing so, helped to reshape the constitutional protections of people accused of crimes.
