United States Supreme Court

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Mary Agnes Hamilton
MAH 's memoirs give detailed and affectionate pen-portraits of innumerable friends, made both at home and in many of the other countries she travelled or worked in. Many of her English friends are known names...
Reception Margaret Atwood
It has also become controversial: it is one of the respected titles discussed in Hit List: Frequently Challenged Books for Young Adults, a book put out by the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the Young...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Carson McCullers
Time ticks on for J. T. Malone and for history. The civil rights struggle comes to Milan and violence ensues. Sherman, after carrying out one or two ineffectual gestures, and betraying his friendship with Jester...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Toni Morrison
Clarence Thomas, the first black justice appointed to the US Supreme Court , was cleared of the accusations of Anita Hill that he had sexually harrassed her. Thomas's appointment was already controversial on account of...

Timeline

25 August 1746: An Indian ambush at Deerfield, Massachusetts,...

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25 August 1746

An Indian ambush at Deerfield, Massachusetts, inspired the Black slave Lucy Terry to compose an oral ballad entitled Bars Fight.
Basker, James G., editor. Amazing Grace. Yale University Press, 2002.
99-100

April 1931: Nine black youths were tried in Scottsboro,...

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April 1931

Nine black youths were tried in Scottsboro, Alabama, for allegedly raping two white women three weeks before; the death sentences passed on them were overturned by the US Supreme Court the following year.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.

November 1956: The US Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation...

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November 1956

The US Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation of seating on public transport was unconstitutional.
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
195

11 March 1959: With the opening of A Raisin in the Sun,...

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11 March 1959

With the opening of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry became the first black woman to have a play produced on Broadway.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
11 March 2008

14 May 1961: A group of Freedom Riders, both black and...

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14 May 1961

A group of Freedom Riders, both black and white, challenging the de facto segregation of long-distance buses in the US South were ambushed and beaten by white supremacists, who burned the bus.
Sugrue, Thomas. “AmeriKKKa”. London Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2006, pp. 17-19.
17-19

June 1967: The last remaining law in the USA which prohibited...

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June 1967

The last remaining law in the USA which prohibited interracial marriage (operative in the State of Virginia) was struck down by the US Supreme Court in the case of Loving v. Virginia.
Trimberger, E. Kay. “For better or worse”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xviii
, No. 7, Apr. 2001, pp. 21-2.
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13 June 1971: The New York Times began printing the Pentagon...

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13 June 1971

The New York Times began printing the Pentagon Papers dossier compiled by Daniel Ellsberg as he worked for the US administration on an internal history of American involvement in Vietnam.
Johnson, Chalmers. “Who’s in charge?”. London Review of Books, 6 Feb. 2003, pp. 7-9.
8-9

22 January 1973: In a case known as Roe v. Wade the US Supreme...

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22 January 1973

In a case known as Roe v. Wade the US Supreme Court ruled that abortion was legal in some circumstances, and that state legislation which totally criminalized abortion was therefore illegal.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
102
Pilkington, Ed. “’These steps are covered with blood’”. The Guardian, 7 July 2009, pp. G2: 4 - 7.
4-7

1976: The United States reinstituted the judicial...

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1976

The United States reinstituted the judicial death penalty by a vote of the Supreme Court .
Wynn, Jennifer. “Visit to America’s own killing fields”. Guardian Weekly, 6 Mar. 2002, p. 38.
38

1983: In the USA Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea...

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1983

In the USACatharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin drafted the Dworkin-MacKinnon ordinance, which sought to employ civil law in the fight against pornography.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
316-25
“Feminist author Andrea Dworkin dies”. CBC Arts and Entertainment, 12 Apr. 2005.

11 September 1991: In the USA Anita Hill testified before the...

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11 September 1991

In the USAAnita Hill testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee against the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court , alleging that Thomas sexually harassed her while he was director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

18 December 2000: George W. Bush, the Republican Party candidate,...

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18 December 2000

George W. Bush , the Republican Party candidate, was finally declared President of the United States when the Electoral College returned a majority of votes in his favour (271 to 267), although the popular vote...

14 July 2015: Harper Lee's first-written but rejected novel,...

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14 July 2015

Harper Lee 's first-written but rejected novel, Go Set a Watchman, reached print from HarperCollins . It is set later in the lives of characters in her wildly successful and so far only novel,...

27 September 2018: A committee of the US Senate heard testimony...

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27 September 2018

A committee of the US Senate heard testimony from Christine Blasey Ford , an academic psychologist, that Brett Kavanaugh , President Trump 's nominee to the Supreme Court , had sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers.
Siddiqui, Sabrina et al. “Kavanaugh hearing: anger and clashes ahead of Senate committee vote”. theguardian.com, 28 Sept. 2018.

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