The U.S. Supreme Court has played a critical role in determining exactly what civil rights American possess and who is entitled to those rights.
(c) Identify the legal doctrine that the Supreme Court articulated in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, and explain the effects of that decision on civil rights in the United States.
(d) Describe what the court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1954, and explain the effects of that decision on civil rights in the United States.
(e) Describe what the court ruled in Minor v. Happersett in 1875, and explain the effect of that ruling on the strategy of the woman suffrage movement in the United States.
