Supreme+Court+Successes

One great accomplishment in the Supreme Court was the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment. This Amendment says there will be no discrimination in the voting system due to race or ethnicity. It gives the right to vote to any other race, not only White-Americans. It says there will be no discrimination of race for any person that wants to register to vote. They must allow anyone to vote even if they aren’t a White-American.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/15thamendment.html

Another great victory in the Supreme Court Was the Nineteenth Amendment. This says the registry cannot deny someone the right to vote based on their gender. This amendment gives the right to vote to women living in America. This is important because it led the way for other Women’s Rights movements. This set equality in the voting system for all people.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/nineteentham.htm

One of the greatest Supreme Court victories for equality was the Browne v. Board of Education Case. This case was about the segregation of public school. When Brown took this case to court, it open equal opportunity of education for all children. The Supreme ruled that the segregation of schools is unconstitutional because we were not giving equal opportunity or equal education to all the children of America. The ruling that stopped the segregation was very important to our history because it allowed equal rights to all Americans.

http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/brown.html

One Supreme Court case to remember is the Santiago Summit of Americas Declaration. It makes special effort to guarantee the human rights of all migrants, including migrant workers and their families. It says that migrant workers work for less pay is unethical. It also states that all Americans deserve the same rights even if they were born in another country. No one should be discriminated against just because they were born somewhere other than America.

http://www.summit-americas.org/chiledec.htm

A great Supreme Court victory that helped women all around America was the Equal Pay Act. The Equal Pay Act prohibits discriminating pay against women. This act was passed because women across America were doing the same jobs as males and not getting equal pay. It states that people should get the pay they deserve to the job they do, not based upon their gender. This act helped women in the workforce all over America.

http://www.dol.gov/oasam/regs/statutes/equal_pay_act.htm