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...landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision a half-century ago, a unanimous Supreme Court struck down the infamous “separate but equal” racial policy. That policy of absolute racial separation had been decreed by the Supreme Court in the Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896. However, that minimal legal acknowledgement of the humanity of African-Americans was never enforced. Their lives were separate but never equal, from the “colored” hospital wards where they were born to the racially-segregated graveyards where they were buried. As a confused six year...
...unanimous 8-0 ruling, the Supreme Court upheld Roosevelt’s right to detain the eight men and try them by military commission in the landmark Ex parte Quirin case. The Court explicitly noted the difference between “lawful” and “unlawful” combatants: “Lawful combatants are subject to capture and detention as prisoners of war by opposing military forces. Unlawful combatants are likewise subject to capture and detention, but in addition they are subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals for acts which render their belligerency unlawful...
Brown, 50 Years Later The landmark desegregation case has produced changes that few could have predicted back...
...occasion of the Carpenter Center’s 40th anniversary, which is being celebrated during the 2003-2004 school year through the end of 2004, has given pause to the nature of a landmark building on a constantly evolving campus. This issue is especially germane as the University expands to the north and plans for a new campus in Allston...
...Carpenter Center is rare in its status as a campus icon as well as an international architectural landmark. It is also rare as a building that gets, and deserves, its own anniversary celebration. But this is not a nostalgic celebration; instead, it embraces a masterwork while noting its flexibility towards adaptation and evolution over four decades...