1. Fourteenth Amendment - Equal Protection
... society. How is that equal? This is the way the law used to work. Segregation based on race was legal, and it was acceptable to discriminate against a group of people because they were racially different. Who would want to live in an era like this, when segregation was ... because of her race, the school was denying her of her Fourteenth Amendment equal protection rights. School admission based solely on race was deemed unconstitutional. Following the decision of this case, the Supreme Court justices then ordered that states provide equal opportunities for blacks (609). This was ... seg...
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