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Texas, 347 U.S. 475 (1954), was a landmark case, "the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period." [ 1 ] In a unanimous ruling, the court held that Mexican Americans and all other nationality groups in the United States have equal protection under ...
The repeal of such restrictive laws, generally known as Jim Crow laws, was a key focus of the Civil Rights Movement prior to 1954. In Sweatt v. Painter, the Supreme Court addressed a legal challenge to the doctrine when a Texan black student, Heman Marion Sweatt, was seeking admission into the state-supported School of Law of the University of ...
Superior Court of the City of New York: Granted freedom to slaves who were brought into New York by their Virginia slave owners, while in transit to Texas. 1853: Northup v. Epps – Recognized that Solomon Northup, who had been abducted from New York and sold as a slave in Louisiana, was free. 1853: Holmes v. Ford: Oregon Territorial Supreme Court
The American Committee on Africa (ACOA) was the first major group devoted to the anti-apartheid campaign. [8] Founded in 1953 by Paul Robeson and a group of civil rights activist, the ACOA encouraged the U.S. government and the United Nations to support African independence movements, including the National Liberation Front in Algeria and the Gold Coast drive to independence in present-day ...
The court held that, when considering graduate education, experience must be considered as part of "substantive equality." [1] The court's decision documented the differences between white and black facilities: The University of Texas Law School had 16 full-time and 3 part-time professors, while the black law school had 5 full-time professors.
Appealed cases from these courts are either heard by the Texas Supreme Court, which rules on civil cases, or the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which rules on criminal cases. ... in far west ...
The Supreme Court on July 1, 2024, kept on hold efforts by Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content in a ruling that strongly ...
When Judge David Ezra of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas on Feb. 29 issued the first hold on SB 4, he said the attempt to enforce immigration law falls under the federal ...