Fourteenth Amendment
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Loving v. Virginia
Significant CaseThe Supreme Court decision that upheld equal protection and due process in regard to interracial marriage.
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Lochner v. New York
Significant CaseThe Supreme Court’s decision that struck down state limits on work hours in bakeries.
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Joseph P. Bradley
Life StoryThe Supreme Court Justice who held the deciding vote on the Electoral Commission for the presidential election of 1876.
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John Marshall Harlan
Life StoryA Kentucky lawyer and politician who fought for the Union Army and became Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and a voice for “equal protection” for U.S. citizens.
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Incorporating Rights
EraDuring the 1950s and 1960s, Supreme Court decisions addressed issues involving individual rights in the civil rights movement, the apportionment of voting, police procedures, and the scope of state power in areas such as birth control and school prayer.
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Hernandez v. Texas
Significant CaseThe Supreme Court case that recognized Mexican Americans as an independent racial group entitled to Fourteenth Amendment protections.
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Gus Garcia
Life StoryThe charismatic attorney who fought for civil rights and worked with the first Mexican-American legal team to argue before the Supreme Court.
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Edward Douglass White Jr.
Life StoryThe first Associate Justice to become the Chief Justice of the United States.
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Earl Warren
Life StoryThe accomplished attorney general and California governor who led the Supreme Court as Chief Justice during a 16-year period of many Constitutional decisions protecting individual rights
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Dorothy Kenyon
Life StoryThe lawyer and social activist whose lifelong advocacy laid the foundation for litigating women’s rights
