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Plessy v Ferguson & Brown v Board of Education
From New Hampshire Public Radio | Part of the Civics 101: Civil Rights series | 51:31
The Supreme Court case that said racial segregation was constitutional, and the landmark decision that, decades later, overturned it.
The Supreme Court case that said racial segregation was constitutional, and the landmark decision that, decades later, overturned it. We examine the decision of Plessy v Ferguson. Steven Luxenberg, Kenneth Mack, Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson walk us through the story of Homer Plessy, the Separate Car Act of 1890, an infamous opinion and a famous dissent. We're talking about an event that was not just an individual act of protest, an arrest that was anything but coincidental, and contrary to what I've learned beforehand, a decision that did not establish the separate but equal doctrine, Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896. Part 2: Five cases, eleven advocates, and a quarter century of work; Brown v Board of Education of Topeka addressed this question: does racial segregation in schools violate the 14th amendment?
This is a broadcast-friendly hour long special, and the second of a four part series on SCOTUS and civil rights. The episode can standalone, or be aired as part of the series, and is free to carry.
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Walking us through the long journey to overturn Plessy v Ferguson are Chief Judge Roger Gregory and Dr. Yohuru Williams. They tell us how the case got to court, what Thurgood Marshall and John W. Davis argued, and how America does and does not live up to the promise of this monumental decision.
The Supreme Court & Dred Scott v Sandford
From New Hampshire Public Radio | Part of the Civics 101: Civil Rights series | 51:26
The Supreme Court is considered by some to be the most powerful branch of US government. So what happens when the Court gets it wrong? Civics 101 from New Hampshire Public Radio looks at what happens when the law of the land decides Black Americans are not Americans.
The Supreme Court is considered by some to be the most powerful branch of US government. So what happens when the Court gets it wrong? Civics 101 from New Hampshire Public Radio looks at what happens when the law of the land decides Black Americans are not Americans. The Supreme Court, considered by some to be the most powerful branch, had humble beginnings. How did it stop being, in the words of Alexander Hamilton, "next to nothing?" Do politics affect the court's decisions? And how do cases even get there? This episode features Larry Robbins, lawyer and eighteen-time advocate in the Supreme Court, and Kathryn DePalo, professor at Florida International University and past president of the Florida Political Science Association. Part 2: Dred Scott v Sandford In 1846, Dred and Harriet Scott were living in St. Louis, Missouri with their two daughters. They were enslaved and launched a not uncommon petition: a lawsuit for their freedom. Eleven years later Chief Justice Roger B. Taney would issue an opinion on their case that not only refused their freedom but attempted to cement the fate of all Black individuals in the United States. Taney would ultimately fail and the Reconstruction Amendments would dash Taney’s opinion in Dred Scott v Sandford, but not before the case was forever cast as a Supreme Court decision gone wrong. The Scotts’ great great granddaughter, Lynne Jackson, is joined by Chief Judge John R. Tunheim of the U.S. District Court of Minnesota to tell the story of the Scotts and their case.
This is a broadcast-friendly hour long special, and the first of a four part series on SCOTUS and civil rights. The episode can standalone, or be aired as part of the series, and is free to carry.
Part 1: The Role of the Judicial Branch
Loving v Virginia & Obergefell v Hodges
From New Hampshire Public Radio | Part of the Civics 101: Civil Rights series | 51:30
The story of marriage equality in the United States, told through two Supreme Court cases.
The story of marriage equality in the United States, told through two Supreme Court cases.
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Mildred and Richard Loving were jailed and banished for marrying in 1958. Nearly a decade later, their Supreme Court case changed the meaning of marriage equality in the United States — decriminalizing their own marriage while they were at it. This is the story of Loving.
Our guests are Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui of the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C. and Farrah Parkes and Brad Linder of The Loving Project.
Part 2:It’s the most recent landmark case in our Civil Rights SCOTUS series, the decision that said the fundamental right to marry is protected under the 14th Amendment. How did it come about? What was the status of marriage before June of 2015? And why is the government so involved in the marriage business anyways?
This episode features the voices of Melissa Wasser from the Project on Government Oversight and Jim Obergefell, the named party in Obergefell v Hodges.
Korematsu v United States & Japanese American Internment
From New Hampshire Public Radio | Part of the Civics 101: Civil Rights series | 51:30
The story of Japanese-American internment during WWII, and the Supreme Court case that challenged it.
Part 1: Is it Constitutional for the government to remove and relocate American citizens to remote camps without due process of law? In 1944, SCOTUS said yes. In 1942, approximately 120,000 Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans were ordered to leave their homes. They were sent to internment camps in desolate regions of the American West. Fred Korematsu refused to comply. This is the story of his appeal to the Supreme Court and what happens when the judicial branch defers to the military. Our guides for this story are Karen Korematsu, Lorraine Bannai and Judge Wallace Tashima. Part 2: Japanese American internment, or incarceration, spanned four years. Over 120,000 Japanese Americans and nationals, half of them children, were made to leave their homes, schools, businesses and farms behind to live behind barbed wire and under armed guard. There was no due process of law, no reasonable suspicion keeping these individuals locked away. What does this injustice mean to our nation? To the inheritors of that trauma? Our guides to this troubling period of American history are Judge Wallace Tashima, Professor Lorraine Bannai and Karen Korematsu.
The story of Japanese-American internment during WWII, and the Supreme Court case that challenged it. This is a broadcast-friendly hour long special, and the second of a four part series on SCOTUS and civil rights. The episode can standalone, or be aired as part of the series, and is free to carry.
Constitution Day Special: The Constitution & The Bill of Rights
From New Hampshire Public Radio | Part of the Civics 101 series | 51:32
In honor of Constitution Day, Civics 101, the podcast refresher course on how our democracy works, shares the story of the two most important documents for the foundation of the United States: the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
After just six years under the Articles of Confederation, a committee of anxious delegates agreed to meet in Philadelphia to amend the government. The country was in an economic crisis — citizens couldn’t pay their debts, the government couldn’t really collect taxes, and rebellions were cropping up in states across the nation. The existing government had the potential to drive the country to ruin. So fifty-five men gathered to determine the shape of the new United States.
The document that emerged after that summer of debate was littered with masterful planning, strange ideas and unsavory concessions. The delegates decided they'd be pleased if this new government lasted fifty years. It has been our blueprint for over two centuries now. This is the story of how our Constitution came to be.
And: The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to our Constitution. Why do we have one? What does it 'do'? And what does it really, really do?
Our guests are Linda Monk, Alvin Tillery, David O. Stewart, Woody Holton, David Bobb, and Chuck Taft.