Race Discrimination

Question 1

Brown v. Board of Education (1952)

Answer 1

Black children were denied access to schools with white children. The Supreme Court declared segregation within schools unconstitutional.

Question 2

Swann v. Charlotte- Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971)

Answer 2

After Brown v. Board of Ed, integration was not happening and the lower courts did not know what to do. Supreme Court ruled that busing students to promote integration is constitutional.

Question 3

Miliken v. Bradley (1974)

Answer 3

The schools of the city of Detroit, Michigan were racially imbalanced in the eyes of the District Court. The court’s remedy was to redraw lines of neighboring suburban school districts to achieve racial balance within the city’s schools. The Supreme Court decided that with no showing of significant violation by the 53 outlying school districts and no evidence of any interdistrict violation or effect,” the district court’s remedy was not justified by Brown v. Board of Education.

Question 4

Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)

Answer 4

The University of Michigan Law School denied admission to white student Barbara Grutter, a female Michigan resident with a 3.8 GPA and 161 LSAT score, she filed this suit, alleging that respondents had discriminated against her on the basis of race. UMLS stated they used affirmative action as there way to bring diversity to campus. The Supreme Court ruled that UMLS did not violate the 14th amendment by trying to consider racial minorities.