Amendments
This amendment prohibits states from stopping men of color from voting.
15th Amendment
This landmark case ended racial segregation in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
This case protected the right to free exercise of religion by allowing parents to pull children from school for legitimate religious purposes.
Wisconsin v. Yoder
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are collectively known as this.
Bill of Rights
This is the author of Letter from a Birmingham Jail and the speaker of the "I Have a Dream" speech.
Martin Luther King Jr.
This 14th Amendment clause requires states to treat people equally under the law.
Equal Protection Clause
This case guaranteed the right to an attorney for criminal defendants.
Gideon v. Wainwright
This case restricted the right to free speech through a decision that stated anti-draft pamphlets posed a "clear and present danger" during wartimes.
Schenck v. United States
A legal or moral entitlement to have or do something is called this.
Right
This type of action is the recommendation for groups that wish to achieve real social change.
Nonviolent direct action
This First Amendment clause prohibits the government from setting up a religion.
Establishment Clause
This case incorporated the Second Amendment right to bear arms to the states
McDonald v. Chicago
This case expanded the right to freedom of the press through a decision that restricted the government's use of "prior restraint" to censor criticism of the government.
NYT v. United States
This process applies Bill of Rights protections to the states via the 14th Amendment.
Selective Incorporation
This Supreme Court Case is most closely related to the central idea of Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
Brown v. Board of Education
This amendment protects against self-incrimination, double jeopardy, and guarantees due process
5th
Students wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War were protected in this case.
Tinker v. Des Moines
OLD REVIEW: In this case, the Supreme Court gave themselves the power of judicial review- meaning they can evaluate Congressional laws for constitutionality.
Marbury v. Madison
This law outlawed literacy tests, which expanded access to voting for men of color in the 1960's.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
According to Letter from a Birmingham Jail, social activist leaders should aim to do this with community leaders after tension has been created in the community.
Negotiate
This amendment guarantees the right to a speedy trial, an impartial jury, and legal counsel.
6th
This case ruled that school-sponsored prayer violates the Establishment Clause.
Engel v. Vitale
This recently overturned case previously expanded a woman's right to abortion and was the foundation for the idea of "right to privacy" existing in the Constitution.
Roe v. Wade
Title IX
This is one of the laws that the social movement in this letter ultimately led to: legislation that prohibited discrimination in public places like hotels and restaurants
The Civil Rights Act of 1964