The following year Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, making it easier for southern blacks to register to vote. ... Affirmative action continued to be debated with California attempting again to put a statewide ban on it. ... Earlier conservatives were allied with Southern segregationists, whose cooperation was essential to a conservative ascendancy in national affairs. ... Opposition towards affirmative action grew after Regents of the University of California v. ... First in California Courts, then in the Supreme Court he held that he was denied because of his race. ...

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Jim Crow laws enforced segregation throughout the southern states of the United States. ... Mexico relinquished California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming to the United States after being defeated in the Mexican-American War. ... In 1968, Mexican American students in Los Angeles, California staged a walkout. ...

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The establishment of an effective Judicial System in the United States of America has come with numerous challenges over the past centuries. What is thought of as "probably the most important and the most satisfactory Act ever passed by Congress," the Judiciary Act of 1789 created for the people a system of courts that would ensure the presence of justice in the new American society. The state of the nation at the time, however, would prove to be challenging for the few selected to hold judicial positions. The terms within the newly minted Constitution posed more questions than they answe...

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