project history presentation syracuse university sept. 23, 2010
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Slavery
1600-1865
Reconstruction
1865-1880
“Servitude”
1880-1954
Civil-rights era
1954-1970
Post-civil rights era
1970-present
Traditional Jim Crow racism
Structural racism
Kluger, Simple Justice (1976): the Warren Court as heroic
Rosenberg, Hollow Hope (1991) and Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights (2004): skepticism about courts as agents of social change
1. Marshall Court, 1800-1835 2. Taney Court, 1835-1865 3. First Reconstruction, 1865-1880
A. The constitutional revolution B. The Supreme Court responds
4. First Redemption, 1880-1900
5. the Nadir, 1900-1920 6. Race, civil rights, and civil liberties, 1920-
1940 7. Dawn, 1940-1954 8. the Second Reconstruction, 1954-1970 9. the Second Redemption, 1970-present
Marshall: avoidance Taney
Prigg v. Pa. (1842): slavery’s intrusion into the free states
Amistad (1841): freedom as default status Dred Scott (1857): slavery national
1. the constitutional revolution: the Reconstruction Amendments A. Federalism B. Individual freedom & civil status C. The federal courts & liberty D. Civil Rights Acts, 1866, 1875
2. Southern white counterrevolution 3. The political settlement of 1876
1. Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)
2. Jury cases 1880: pretextuality
3. Civil Rights Cases (1883)
4. Jim Crow railroad cases 1878, 1890
5. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
6. Williams v. Mississippi (1898)
7. Cumming v. County School Board (1899)
8. Giles v. Harris (1903)
9. Berea College v. Kentucky (1908)
1. Peonage: Bailey v. Ala (1911) & Reynolds v. US (1914)
2. Reinterpreting separate-but-equal: McCabe v. ATSF Ry (1914)
3. Grandfather clause: Guinn v. US (1915)
4. Residential segregation: Buchanan v. Warley (1917)
1. Fair trials: Moore v. Dempsey (1923), Scottsboro Boys (1932, 1935), Brown v. Miss. (1936)
2. Racial covenants: Corrigan v. Buckley (1926)
3. The white primary: Nixon v. Herndon (1927) to Smith v. Allwright (1944)
4. Asians and race: Ozawa v. US (1922), US v. Thind (1923), Gong Lum v. Rice (1927)
5. Civil liberties: Herndon v. Lowry (1937)
1. Race as a suspect class: Korematsu v. US (1944)
2. Higher education, 1938-1950
3. The white primary: Smith v. Allwright (1944), Terry v. Adams (1953)
4. Interstate transportation: Morgan v. Virginia (1946), Bob-Lo Excursion Co. v. Michigan (1948)
5. Housing: Shelley v. Kraemer (1948
1. Desegregation: Brown I and its progeny 2. the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, 1965, and
1968: Heart of Atlanta (1964) 3. Political power: Gomillion v. Lightfoot
(1960), So. Car. v. Katzenbach (1966) 4. Thirteenth Amendment & 1866 CRA: Jones
v. Alfred Mayer (1968) 5. Busing: Swann (1971) 6. Effects vs. intent: Griggs v. Duke Power
(1971)
7. State action: Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority (1961)
8. Racial classifications: Loving v. Virginia (1967), McLaughlin v. Fla (1964)
9. First Amendment: NAACP v. Ala (1958), NYTimes v. Sullivan (1964)
10. Congressional power: Katzenbach v. Morgan (1966)
11. Criminal prosecutions: US v. Guest (1966), US v. Price (1966)
1. Affirmative action: Bakke (1978), Richmond v. Croson (1989), Adarand v. Pena
(1995) 2. Effects vs. intent: Washington v. Davis
(1976) 3. Structural racism: Wygant v. Board of
Education (1986) 4. Death penalty: McCleskey v. Kemp (1987) 5. Busing: Milliken v. Bradley (1974)
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