This lesson explores the evolution of the interpretation of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause through analysis of primary source excerpts from:
- 14th Amendment
- Congressional Debates on the 14th Amendment
- The Civil Rights Cases (1883)
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- Brown v. Board of Education I (1954)
- Loving v. Virginia (1967)
- Reed v. Reed (1971)
- Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
- Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)
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