Lecture notes for 3/26/99

In order to change the overal opinions of the Supreme Court members, the people had to
     elect a president that would appoint new members with different opinions once the
     old members retired.

Missouri vs. Canada (1938)
     -The state of Missouri gave money to Blacks to get their degrees outside the state
          since Missouri did not offer these degrees to blacks in the white law schools.
     -Issue of case:  shipping blacks off to other states to get their degrees violated the
          separate but equal clause
Sweep vs. Painter (1950)
     -Sweep wanted to go to UT law school but was denied.
     -He was able to demonstrate that the black law schools were not equal with the white
          law school.
McLaurin vs. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education(1950)
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
     -Thurgood Marshall worked for the NAACP; later became the first black man in the
          Supreme Court.
          -He wanted to challenge the Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling of separate but
               equal doctrine.
          -Supreme Court ruled to overturn the separate but equal doctrine.
     -One year later, the Supreme Court ordered the states to move "with deliberate
          speed" to desegregate, but since none of the states wanted to change,
          no progrees was made.
     -Only until the 1960's does the desegregation process really start to take place.
     -In addition, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was designed to erase racial discrimination
          in both public and private sectors (an aspect that the Brown vs. Board of
          Education of Topeka case did not touch on.)
          -People could still be segregatious if the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not include
               private sectors.

Additional acts of desegregation
     -Truman desegregated armed forces by executive order.
     -Civil Rights Act of 1964
          -Title 6:  if any department or agency of the federal government practices any form of
               discrimination, that department or agency will be shut down.