In this lesson, students explore the evolution of the interpretation of the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause through analysis of primary source excerpts from:
The 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)