Gov 3.8

Legalized segregation in publicly owned facilities on the basis of "separate but equal."

sat on "white only" box car

Overrules Plessy v. Ferguson (no stare decisis). Racial segregation violates 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause ("separate is inherently unequal")

Supreme Court ruled that "a diverse student body" was a "compelling public purpose" but said that the school could not use specific quotas The Court ruled that universities could take minority status into consideration on two conditions: (1) previous discrimination had been shown (2) it was used more as a guideline for social diversity than as a mathematically defined ratio

A 1995 Supreme Court decision holding that federal programs that classify people by race, even for an ostensibly benign purpose such as expanding opportunities for minorities, should be presumed to be unconstitutional.

creating quotas for minority admissions or hiring

You made the wrong decision.

quotas

Allan Bakke

By its very definition, it cannot be equal.

It strengthened the growing civil rights movement.

He sat down in a train's whites-only car.

refutes the doctrine of "separate but equal."

Both cases involved interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Segregation could lead to feelings of inferiority.