Word: dred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the Supreme Court issues its school segregation decree, it will have spent nearly a year studying Southern psychology. For the first time since the Dred Scott ruling in 1857, there is serious danger that mass disobedience and even violence will interfere with enforcement. This month the nine Justices must decide what plan of integration will minimize this civil disobedience. Before the end of May the nation will know how soon the Court feels it can enforce the Constitutional rights of 3,200,000 Negro schoolchildren...
Timely Reassertion. In its 164 years the court had erected many a landmark of U.S. history: Marbury v. Madison, the Bank of the United States case, Dred Scott, the Slaughterhouse cases, the "Sick Chicken case" that killed the NRA, 1952's steel seizure. None of them, except the Dred Scott case (reversed by the Civil War) was more important than the school segregation issue. None of them directly and intimately affected so many American families. The lives and values of some 12 million schoolchildren in 21 states* will be altered, and with them eventually the whole social pattern...