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Bakke V. Board of Regents

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  Today in class a mock trial of the case of Bakke v.s Board of Regents was held. This case occurred in the year of 1978 and was between Allan Bakker and the Board of Regents at the University of California. Bakke sued the University because the medical school left 16 seats of the 100 seats to anyone who is considered a minority. This could be anyone of Asian, African American, or anything other than white descent. Bakke was denied admissions to the school two times. In retaliation, or constitutionally, he decided to sue the school. He stated that what the school was doing was unconstitutional and racist. During this case, the Supreme Court ruled that the University of California, included quotas that were considered racist in it’s admissions process. However, this did not mean that race would not be considered in future admission processes. The court ruled that schools may consider race to allow more diversity in the school or specific program. The admissions however, should be as...
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Reconstruction Era

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 Five years ago on the day of June 17th, 2015, a 21 year old opened fire on a church. The terroristic attack was motivated through racism. The shooting opened the eyes to many people about the the racism that still exists today in the United States.  The Reconstruction Era was a time after the Civil war where segregation and racism occurred. The Union won the war and ended slavery, however, it was not the end for the blacks freedom. The African American people had to fight for decades to finally get their equality they have received today in the present time. The 2015 shooting was an experience that showed the fight for inequality was not over.  The African American community was left with no money or jobs. The jobs they were only available sometimes, so many people were left without work.  As well as being short of jobs African Americans and the black community needed to deal with the KKK and Jim Crow laws. The KKK or Ku Klux Klan was a hate group that fought to cau...
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Brown V. Board

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Today we had a group hold a mock trial fighting the case of Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka. This trial occurred in Kansas during the year of 1954. One side fought the segregation of the schools, while the other group fought to end segregation in schools. The students used different ways to fight their point whether it was through religion, ethics, or morals.  This case started in 1951, when a school in Topeka Kansas, refused to let African American Oliver Brown into the academic building. She was then forced to take a bus to a school much further away, to a segregated school district for Black children only. The Brown family and 12 others were in the same situation. They decided to create a class action lawsuit in the U.S. federal court versus the Topeka Board of education. The court decided that the segregation of the children was unconstitutional and the segregation in the school district would stop. This overruled another popular case Plessy V. Fergusson, which called for...
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