Category Archives: Contemporary Era (1976-2000s)
The election of Richard M. Nixon as president in 1968 and his use of the term silent majority signaled a major shift in American politics at the end of the 1960s. By 1974, SNCC had disbanded and the Black Panther Party was on the decline, and the NAACP lost a major court case in Milliken v. Bradley, when the Supreme Court declared that school systems were not responsible for desegregation across district lines. This category focuses on civil rights legislation and major court cases involving issues of race from 1976 into the 21st Century.
- Contemporary Era: Civil Rights Legislation
- Contemporary Era: Legal Cases
- Batson v. Kentucky (1986)
- Board of Education of Oklahoma City v. Dowell (1991)
- Bob Jones University v. United States (1983)
- City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co. (1989)
- Columbus Board of Education v. Penick (1979)
- Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman (1979)
- Fisher v. University of Texas (2016)
- Foreman v. Dallas County (1997)
- Freeman v. Pitts (1992)
- Fullilove V. Klutznick (1980)
- Georgia v. Ashcroft (2003)
- Goldsboro Christian Schools v. United States (1977)
- Gratz v. Bollinger (2003)
- Grove City College v. Bell (1984)
- Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
- Hanrahan et al. v. Hampton et al. (1980)
- Martin v. Wilks (1989)
- Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education (2007)
- Missouri v. Jenkins (1995)
- Morse v. Republican Party of Virginia (1996)
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Hampton County Election Commission (1985)
- Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (2007)
- Regents of University of California v. Bakke (1978)
- Riley v. Kennedy (2008)
- School Desegregation and Busing
- Sheet Metal Workers v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1986)
- Shelby County v. Holder (2013)
- Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project Inc. (2015)
- Thornburg v. Gingles (1986)
- United States v. Board of Supervisors of Warren County Mississippi (1977)
- United States v. Fordice (1992)
- United States v. Paradise (1987)
- United Steelworkers v. Weber (1979)
- Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio (1989)
- Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education (1986)
- Young v. Fordice (1997)
- Policing and Protests