AJ 025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: White Flight, Exclusionary Rule, Miranda Warning

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Administration of Justice (AJ)
• Course: AJ 025
• Professor: Johnson

Document Summary

First separate but equal: plessy v. ferguson (coaches) Cummings v. lee: what mattered simply was separate. Attack on desegregation by naacp and thurgood marshall started at postgraduate level and worked down. Brown v. board of education (1954): held that in education separate but equal is inherently unequal because of the feelings of inferiority. Used their power of equity - remedial policymaking: how do you undo the damage that has occurred. End of opinion: court urges parties to come back and determine a remedy. Brown ii (1955) - proceed with all deliberate speed to eliminate dual school system, very little federal guidance. Led to white flight, evasion of taxes, cities are overwhelmingly minority, exacerbates race relations. Voting rights acts of 1964 and 1965: schools were still being desegregated. Green v. new kent county: prompted judges to redraw district boundaries, busing. Charlotte v. mecklenberg: try to attain same ratio of black to white students in schools.