Civil Rights Research Paper

Many Supreme Court cases influenced the Civil Rights Act and required people to speak up about what they feel is wrong and right: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. The Civil Rights Act ended many things such as segregation and discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, among other things. Furthermore, the a civil Rights Act was influenced by many in their own ways people such as: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and even John F. Kennedy. The Civil Rights Act was impacted by the Supreme Courts decisions in many ways: Dred Scott vs Sanford, Shelley vs Kraemer, Brown vs Board of Education. The Dred Scott vs Sanford case had a tremendous impact on the Civil Rights
This topic had a great deal to do with the Civil Rights Act later on. The Shelley family bought a house in a neighborhood that thirty out of thirty-nine parcel owners signed a covenant:"The covenant had been in place since 1911 and barred “people of the Negro or Mongolian Race” from owning the property."(Fair housing center of greater Boston Timeline.).The people who sold the house were not aware of the covenant and the other owners sued in the Circuit Court of Missouri. The case was appealed so much it got up to the Supreme Court who ruled in favor of the Shelley family. After this case that led to many conversations about are the "equal" rights that are being done really
Oliver Brown's , a black man, daughter Linda has to take a long and treacherous way to school because she has to go to a 'black' school when there is a closer school but it's a 'white' school. This is where "equal" rights really came into debate at. Oliver decided that he wanted to do something about that:"This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country."—Lyndon B. Johnson. As they kept appealing the case they eventually got to the U.S. Supreme Court who ruled in favor of Brown. This was a very big celebration even though there were people that weren't gonna be too happy it didn't matter because there was a breakthrough. There was finally desegregation in schools and that breakthrough led to many more. Overall, the Supreme Court has impacted this act in more ways than even if they didn't always seem like they were helping: Dred Scott vs Sanford, Shelley vs Kraemer, Brown vs Board of Education. Such as the Dred Scott vs Sanford even though the Supreme Court didn't support the argument it still impacted the act in a good way. But they also impacted this act in a exceptional way such as the Brown vs Board of Education and many