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38 relations: Abolitionism, African Americans, American Civil War, American Experience, Batson v. Kentucky, Capital punishment, Civil and political rights, Civil Rights Act of 1875, Cornell University, Discrimination in the United States, Due process, Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co., Equal Protection Clause, Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B., Jim Crow laws, Norris v. Alabama, PBS, Peremptory challenge, Plessy v. Ferguson, Powell v. Alabama, Racial discrimination, Rebecca Saxe, Recantation, Samuel Leibowitz, Scientific American, Scottsboro Boys, Separate but equal, Strauder v. West Virginia, Sturm College of Law, Supreme Court of Alabama, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Supreme Court of the United States, The New York Times, Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, United States Constitution, University of Denver.
Abolitionism
Abolitionism is a general term which describes the movement to end slavery.
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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American Experience
American Experience is a television program airing on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television stations in the United States.
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Batson v. Kentucky
Batson v. Kentucky,, was a case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that a prosecutor's use of peremptory challenge in a criminal case—the dismissal of jurors without stating a valid cause for doing so—may not be used to exclude jurors based solely on their race.
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Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.
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Civil and political rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.
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Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 (–337), sometimes called Enforcement Act or Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era in response to civil rights violations to African Americans, "to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights", giving them equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury service.
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Cornell University
Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.
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Discrimination in the United States
Discrimination is the process by which two stimuli differing in some aspect are responded to differently.
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Due process
Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person.
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Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co.
Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Company, 500 U.S. 614 (1991), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that peremptory challenges may not be used to exclude jurors on the basis of race in civil trials.
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Equal Protection Clause
The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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Norris v. Alabama
Norris v. Alabama, 294 U.S. 587 (1935), was one of the cases decided by the United States Supreme Court that arose out of the trial of the Scottsboro Boys.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.
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Peremptory challenge
In English and American law, the right of peremptory challenge is a right in jury selection for the attorneys to reject a certain number of potential jurors without stating a reason.
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896),.
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Powell v. Alabama
In Powell v. Alabama, the United States Supreme Court reversed the convictions of nine young black men for allegedly raping two white women on a freight train near Scottsboro, Alabama.
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Racial discrimination
Racial discrimination refers to discrimination against individuals on the basis of their race.
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Rebecca Saxe
Rebecca Saxe is a professor of cognitive neuroscience in the department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.
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Recantation
Recantation means a personal public act of denial of a previously published opinion or belief.
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Samuel Leibowitz
Samuel Simon Leibowitz (August 14, 1893 – January 11, 1978) was a Jewish Romanian-born American criminal defense attorney, famously noted for winning the vast majority of his cases, who later became a justice of the New York State Supreme Court.
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Scientific American
Scientific American (informally abbreviated SciAm) is an American popular science magazine.
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Scottsboro Boys
The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American teenagers, ages 13 to 20, accused in Alabama of raping two White American women on a train in 1931.
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Separate but equal
Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law according to which racial segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted during the Reconstruction Era, which guaranteed "equal protection" under the law to all citizens.
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Strauder v. West Virginia
Strauder v. West Virginia,, was a United States Supreme Court case about racial discrimination.
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Sturm College of Law
The Sturm College of Law ("Denver Law") of University of Denver is one of two law schools in the state of Colorado.
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Supreme Court of Alabama
The Supreme Court of Alabama is the highest court in the state of Alabama.
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Supreme Court of Mississippi
The Supreme Court of Mississippi is the highest court in the state of Mississippi.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
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United States Constitution
The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States.
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University of Denver
The University of Denver (DU) is a research coeducational, four-year university in Denver, Colorado.
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