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A 4 page research paper on the Civil Rights era. During this time the executive branch, under both Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon, aided the cause of civil rights by promoting significant legislation and anti-discrimination public policy. However, the Civil Rights movement was first aided by the Supreme Court through the landmark decision of Brown v. the Board of Education. In deciding which branch of the federal government was most successful in its efforts to end racial discrimination, this examination considers a three-point criteria: specifically, (1) understanding and sensitivity toward the issues involved; (2) advocacy of African American rights; and (3) effective results. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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time the executive branch, under both Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon, aided the cause of civil rights by promoting significant legislation and anti-discrimination public policy. However, the Civil
Rights movement was first aided by the Supreme Court through the landmark decision of Brown v. the Board of Education. In deciding which branch of the federal government was most
successful in its efforts to end racial discrimination, this examination will consider a three-point criteria: specifically, (1) understanding and sensitivity toward the issues involved; (2) advocacy of African American
rights; and (3) effective results. Supreme Court Higginbotham (1995) considers the US Supreme Court decision of May 17, 1954, Brown v. Board of Education, to be the most significant
government act since the Emancipation Proclamation, as Brown eradicated the principal legitimacy of state-imposed segregation and provided a foundational "building block" in the rationale that promote the civil rights protests
and legislation of the 1960s. In his autobiography, Earl Warren, who was Chief Justice at the time, indicates that he fully understood the issues involved and was sensitive to the
role that the Supreme Court had played in the past to thwarting African Americans of the full rights of citizenship. Warren writes that the principle that the principle on
which Brown was grounded rested "solely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution" (1977, p. 306). Warren also points out that previous Supreme Court decisions, particularly "Plessy vs.
Ferguson" had already greatly limited the scope of the Fourteenth. He also makes the argument that if Congress had passed any remedial legislation a "generation or more before having to
enforce Browns" legislation provision," blacks and other minorities would have achieved their rights by the middle of the twentieth century, and much of the emotional heat of the issue could
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