United States Supreme Court
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | 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 |
| 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, inspired the Black slave Lucy Terry
to compose an oral ballad entitled Bars Fight.
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.
November 1956
The US Supreme Court
ruled that racial segregation of seating on public transport was unconstitutional.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1976
The United States reinstituted the judicial death penalty by a vote of the Supreme Court
.
1983
In the USACatharine MacKinnon
and Andrea Dworkin
drafted the Dworkin-MacKinnon ordinance, which sought to employ civil law in the fight against pornography.
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, 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, 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 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.