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Volume II Chapter 8: Equality and Racial Discrimination

  1. Race and the Founding
    1. Petition for freedom to the Massachusetts Council and the House of Representatives, January [13] 1777
    2. Pennsylvania, Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery (1780)
    3. Rhode Island Act Authorizing the Manumission of Negros, Mulattoes, and Others and the Gradual Abolition of Slavery (1784)
    4. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Henri Gregoire (1809)
    5. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Edward Coles (1814)
    6. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Holmes (1820)
    7. George Washington, Letter to Robert Morris, April 12, 1786
    8. Alexander Hamilton, Letter to John Jay, March 14, 1779
  2. Racial Desegregation and the Equal Protection Clause
    1. Green v. County School Board of New Kent County (1968)
    2. Milliken v. Bradley (1974)
  3. Private Discrimination and the Concept of State Action
    1. Palmore v. Sidoti (1984)
  4. Proof of Discrimination: Disparate Treatment Versus Disparate Impact
    1. Washington v. Davis (1976)
    2. Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. (1977)
    3. Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio (1989)
    4. The Civil Rights Act of 1991
  5. Racial Discrimination in Jury Trials and Prisons
    1. Georgia v. McCollum (1992)
    2. Johnson v. California (2005)
  6. Race, Representative, and the Fifteenth Amendment
    1. Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)
    2. Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
    3. Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections (1966)
    4. Vieth v. Jubelirer (2004)

Volume II Chapter 3: Rights Under the Constitution

Chapter 3: Rights Under the Constitution

  1. Rights and the Founding (No online content)
  2. The Fourteenth Amendment (No online content)
  3. Due Process and the Bill of Rights (No online content)
  4. Rights During Wartime and Other Emergencies
    1. Ex parte Milligan (1866)
    2. Korematsu v. United States (1944)
    3. Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004)
    4. Boumediene v. Bush (2008)
    5. Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo (2020)