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  In the year 1977 Allan Bakke filed a lawsuit against the Board of Regents in California. Allen Bakke was a 35-year-old white man, who was in the military. He had entered the medical program and was rejected twice. The program has only 100 spots available and 16 spots were to be set aside for minorities including “blacks”, “cinchonas”, “Asians”, and “American Indians”.   Bakke who was a white applicant and then was rejected although he had higher MCAT scores, GPA and bench scores than some of those admitted over him in the minority applicant section.   Bakke sued the University of California in a state court, due to the medical school allegedly violating title VI of the civil rights act of 1964 which ended segregation in public places, and employment discrimination. Bakke views this that although he is white, he is more deserving of the spot in the medical program over the others. As well as the 14 th amendment right that had been violated which was about equal prot...

       Martin Luther King jr. was born January 15 th 1929 in Atlanta Georgia. Growing up a very religious man, both his father and grandfather serving as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. While growing up he attended segregated public schools, while graduating high school at the age of 15. In the year 1954, Martin Luther king became a pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.        Martin Luther King strongly believed in ended segregation and working for the civil rights of his case. By the 1950s king was a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancements of colors people. King attended a lot of peaceable rally’s because that is how he believed to share his message.   Although King was peaceful that does not mean he was treated this way. He was arrested, his home was bombed, and he was personally abused, but through all of this he emerged as a leader for the colored...

            In 1951 Oliver Brown filed a class action lawsuit against the board of education in Topeka Kansas. His daughter was rejected from the all-white elementary school, which he viewed was unconstitutional due to the racial segregation. Brown claims that school for black children or not equal to schools for only white children. They made the case of this violating the 14 th amendment which states that no state can “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”. As well as saying the separate but equal act is unconstitutional.        Black children are deprived of their equality with the separate but equal act when schools are not being integrated. When schools are not integrated it implies that one is less superior to the other, because if they were equal like they were supposed to be, and how the law states there would be no need for segregation. Having the schools be integrated violates the “e...

  The underground railroad began in 1831. This organized and elaborate system Was put into place to help slaves gain freedom. it helped them across international borders, and slaves would go in several different directions like North to Canada, then South to Mexico and Spanish Florida, Indian territory in the West, The Caribbean islands in Europe. The states were this help the most was Kentucky, Virginia, and Maryland. when you got to the Deep South it was much harder for a slave to escape to do the rewards for capturing a slave being much higher. slaves were labeled as runaways, escapees and fugitives. well too anti-slavery believers this is what they thought, but in reality, they were freedom seekers. along the way there are people who wanted to help the freedom seekers by setting up houses along the way for them to stay. Although depending on when you were it became more difficult to find them. The fugitive slave act of 1793 was in place, and this made if harder and gave sla...

  Born on March 15 th 1767, Andrew Jackson was born in Waxhaw, south Carolina. Growing up he lived on a plantation with over a hundred slaves. Leading a life of mischief and sorrow for a while after several family members passing away, he would then become the 7 th president of the united states from 1829-1837. Prior to this he was a solider and a general in the U.S army. He Grew up being for pro slavery. Unlike the north witch was more against slavery the states in the south, believed and fought to keep slavery long and hard.   During his lifetime he went from being poor to extremely wealthy and this is because of slavery. Jackson immensely profited off slavery making him even more pro slavery. In his lifetime he will have owned 161 slaves to work him, in the white house and his actual home. Although they made him rich is does not explain what he did and how he treated his slaves. He would brutally whip and beat them, along with public whipping of women. When runaw...

       In the year 1892 Homer Plessy a 7/8 Caucasian man, tried to challenge the law by sitting by sitting the white people’s cart only. Then there was a separate car act requiring blacks and whites to ride in different train carts. Technically under Louisiana law Plessy was considered Black, so he was asked to leave the car, but there he was arrested.        Plessy believed that this was a violation of his thirteenth and fourteenth amendment acts. The thirteenth amendment states “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” While the fourteenth amendment will grant equal citizenship rights to newly freed African American Slaves, saying “all people born or naturalized in the in the United States”. Meaning black people and all minorities are included in this.      With the...