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14th Ammendment

The 14th Amendment has been the law of the land since mid 19th century but sadly enough it had only been the theory and had hardly been enforced until some time through the civil rights movement. Alan Freeman took few of the most obvious and visible examples from some of the most famous Supreme Court cases and split them into two perspectives. We are offered a perpetrator’s view and a victim’s of the outcome of these cases to help us better understand the eminent need for Civil Rights movement and what factors influenced the changes that occurred in the second half of the 20th century.

In one perspective we are offered that it is probably a coincidence that no blacks had ever been elected for the office, and that a street closing is just a routine traffic control decision. And obviously from another perspective, one (victim) can imply that the street is closed to keep the black people out from where they are not supposed to be, and that the reason they had not been elected for the office is not a coincidence at all but might just have something to do with the color of their skin after all. One of the strongest arguments that had been used to disprove of all these


1965-74. When the Supreme Court returned to face this issue in 1971, Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg board of education, to admit the embarrassment of segregation without enforcing the integration. The court was forced to do something about this serious contradiction and lack of enforcement.

Both public and private sides played a large role in this movement. The white public wanted to keep the black codes in tact, and the black public obviously wanted a change. A lot of private firms and individuals sponsored these cases, demonstrations were also popular, riots, political scandals, affirmative action, Martin Luther King were all examples of how both public and private people played a role in this long, frustrating, painful, and for some very tragic process. All the lives lost, people sacrificed, cases won, families broken, and many more ordeals like this, is now simply known to us as question in a Sociology of Law class as “what factors influenced the civil rights movement, and what roles did the public/private divide play in this?”

During the next era of rationalization 1974-84, Milliken vs. Bradley helped Supreme Court to further realize that nothing had b

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Approximate Word count = 793
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