4.04 US Government

Brown v. Board of Education is the court case which made segregated schools unconstitutional. This appeal was brought up by an African American man named Oliver Brown, who's daughter was forbidden to enter the nearest school in their neighborhood, which happens to be a white only school. Brown v. Board of Education is comprised of five different cases under the same name. On May 17th, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled segregation to be unconstitutional.

Mapp v. Ohio is the court case about illegal police searches, due to not having the proper warrant to search a persons house. Dollree Mapp is the appellant of this case after police searched her house without a warrant since they suspected a fugitive to be hiding there. In the process the police obtained obscene materials from her house and was arrested. The Supreme Court ruled that the search was illegal and the items were illegally obtained since Mapp was protected under the Fourth Amendment.

The14th Amendment assures that every American's are granted "equal protection under law". This amendment was ratified on July 9th, 1868 which granted citizenship to all people born in America, including former black slaves after the Civil War.

The 19th Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920 -- this amendment allowed the women the right to vote. The women's suffrage started when women were dissatisfied that they did not have as much rights as men, including the right to vote.

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• History.com Staff. "19th Amendment." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2010. Web. 24 Apr. 2017.