THE 1970S 1969 1979
SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE
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Wisconsin v Yoder
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Mendez v Westminster
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Delgado v Bastrop ISD
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Sweatt v Painter
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Detailed explanation-1: -Board of Education (1954, 1955) The case that came to be known as Brown v. Board of Education was actually the name given to five separate cases that were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the issue of segregation in public schools.
Detailed explanation-2: -BRIA 23 2 c Mendez v Westminster: Paving the Way to School Desegregation. In 1947, parents won a federal lawsuit against several California school districts that had segregated Mexican-American schoolchildren. For the first time, this case introduced evidence in a court that school segregation harmed minority children.
Detailed explanation-3: -This article analyzes Mendez v. Westminster School District, a 1946 federal court case that ruled that separate but equal schools for Mexican American children in Orange County, California, was unconstitutional and that influenced the famous 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education.
Detailed explanation-4: -The case, Mendez v. Westminster, ended school segregation in California seven years before Brown v. Board.