Students and the Supreme Court

U.S. History

Standard 29 for Era 9 (Postwar United States, 1945 to early 1970s): The student understands the struggle for racial and gender equality and for the extension of civil liberties.

Benchmark 4

The Student:

Understands significant influences on the civil rights movement (e.g., the social and constitutional issues involved in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and Brown v. Board of Education (1954) court cases; the connection between legislative acts, Supreme Court decisions, and the civil rights movement; the role of women in the civil rights movement and in shaping the struggle for civil rights)

Civics

Standard 18: The student understands the role and importance of law in the American constitutional system and issues regarding the judicial protection of rights.

Benchmark 8

The Student:

• Knows historical and contemporary instances in which judicial protections have not been extended to all persons and instances in which judicial protections have been extended to those deprived of them in the past

Standard 25: The student understands issues regarding personal, political and economic rights.

Benchmark 5

The Student:

• Knows major documentary sources of personal, political, and economic rights such as the Northwest Ordinance, state constitutions and bills of rights, court decisions, and common law