Argumentative Essay: The Civil Rights Movement

On September 26, 2017, a high school in Colorado faced a lawsuit from one its former students. Cidney Fisk graduated from Delta High School in 2016 (MLA). After her experiences throughout her academic career, Fisk decided a lawsuit was the best way to go. She is suing Delta High School on the grounds that they have changed her grades, refused to submit scholarship applications, and ostracized her all because she disagreed with their religious belief.

Sixty-two years ago, the Supreme Court ruled the “separate but equal” doctrine unconstitutional. The decision from the Plessy v. Ferguson case was lawfully denounced by the Brown v. Board of Education. The Brown case, which was initiated by the members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), served as a stimulus for challenging segregation in all areas of society, especially in public educational institutions. Among the support for the desegregation in school systems, there was a young yet compelling voice who was heard by numerous ears in the rural city in Farmville, Alabama. The virtuous and determined Barbara Johns, who was only a high school student then led her tiny, hovel-like school’s student body and the Farmville community to file a lawsuit in the hope of terminating the inequality in regards to the educational system.

Title: Rose v. Council for better education. Supreme Court of Kentucky, 1989 790 S.W 2d 186.

Arousing the Civil Rights Act instated in 1964, Judge Lee Rosenthal of Southern District of Texas ruled that Title VII forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, supplementing the traditional instated prohibition of prejudice based on one’s color, race, religion, sex, and national origin in the workplace. Concluding that biased notions towards one’s sexuality and transgender status are forms of discriminant towards one’s sex, Judge Rosenthal decreed the inclusion for protections of non-heteronormative individuals.

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In 2004 the case of Deal v. Hamilton County Board of Education was coming to a close after reaching the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Ohio. Within this essay, detailed examination of this case, along with issues that developed the case, disagreement points, parties involved, and final outcome will be explored. This case was initiated in 1999 and reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 2004. The Individuals with Disabilities Act has given parents and caregivers to student’s unparalleled

The district court’s decision to dismiss this case is based on the Plaintiffs failure to prove theory of purposeful discrimination, which is denied under Alexander v. Sandoval where the Supreme Court ruled that even if a federally funded entity knowingly adopts a policy that creates disparate impact, Title VI still affords no remedy and also because Proposition 16 is a facially neutral policy that happened to create a racially disparate impact, it holds no bearing to Title VI. The court ultimately found that Proposition 16 was created to improve ALL student athlete graduation rights. As for Pryor’s ADA claim, it too was dismissed because Pryor lacked the standing to remedy her loss of eligibility due to the fact the NCAA may still grant her the relief she seeks.

With the issue of desegregation in the Boston county schools, the school system had been ignoring a state act before the federal judge acted. In 1965 Massachusetts had passed the Racial Imbalance Act that required schools to desegregate if they had a population of 50 percent or greater of a single race, the Boston school system refused to pass the act in their own area (Gellerman). Instead of sitting back and letting the school board ignore the job they were appointed to do, black

Thomas Madison and Mary Hamilton are two high school seniors that applied to The University of Southern Iowa State, but were denied admission. Madison thinks that the University should consider that fact that he is gay and Hamilton believes that the school is discriminating based on race. Both applicants sue the school because they believe that some factors of the admissions process are unconstitutional.

Matthew N. Fraser, a student at Bethel High School delivers a speech to the school about nominating another student for the student elective office. Matthew had broken the rules at his school. The speech he gave was not appropriate for students to be hearing and was told by teacher that he should not give the speech but he did anyway.

“I feel that I have been convicted of violating an unjust statute. I will continue in the future, as I have in the past, to oppose this law in any way I can. Any other action would be in violation of my ideal of academic freedom—that is, to teach the truth as guaranteed in our Constitution of personal and religious freedom. I think the fine is unjust.” John T. Scopes. The state of Tennessee had beaten the defendant and had shown that they, no matter how good a trial, will not be bested when it came to the Butler Act. Scopes should’ve won the trial, except some limiting factors that made it virtually impossible for him to win was towards the end of the trial when all of his key witnesses had been struck from the record and could not be used to influence the final verdict, by the time the trial had started he already had a target on his back and he had already lost in the eyes of the country and how they treated the case as a publicity stunt and not the importance they needed to. This changed the view of people and the school’s.

Sumter County School District 17 is a public school district in South Carolina. T.H. is a student who qualifies for services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Sumter County School is appealing the decision of the lower district court, who found that the school district did not provide TH with a Free Appropriate Public Education. The school is also appealing the district court’s findings, which verified that T.H’.s current placement at home was appropriate. The school argues that the home placement of T.H. was not the Least Restrictive Environment. The school district’s appeal further contends that they at least in part provided a FAPE for T.H. because he was making some educational gains during the time in question even though the school was not providing the amount of service indicated in T.H.’s Individualized Education Plan. The school also asserts that they remedied internal problems and were able to provide the full range of time and services require through T.H.’s IEP.

He filed suit in the Superior Court of Yolo County, California. His claim was that the University of California’s special program violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. It also went against Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because it excluded him on the basis of race. The University defended themselves by saying all the pros of the special admissions program. They said it fought against the discrimination so common in their society.

What the Brown decision provided was a means to challenge the meaning of, “separate but equal”, as it applied to public schooling opportunities for students with disabilities (Blanchett, Mumford, & Beachum, 2005). Before and after Brown, students with disabilities were not necessarily educated in public schools as there were no laws that mandated this. For the most part disabled students were educated in facilities that were separate from the “regular” school setting.

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed-we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” This was a quote by Martin Luther King Jr. He believed in the idea of equality for all men, in a world where a black man and a white man can walk together side by side, a world without segregation, jobs and equal pay for the people. Martin Luther led one of the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of the United States. As a civil right activist, he stood for equal rights for all people and he led a great march of over two hundred and fifty thousand civil right supporters for quality and the end of racism in the United States. His speech “I have a dream” paved the way in setting a decisive moment for the American civil rights movement in the country.