Clarence Darrow • Born in Ohio; studied one year at Allegheny College, PA; studied law at University of Michigan for one year but leaves before graduating • Moves to Chicago; involved in appeal of the Haymarket martyrs; defense attorney for Industrial Workers of the World and for members of the American Communist Party • Opposes capital punishment D. Robert Crowe • Studied law at Yale University • 1916: elected judge on Circuit Court • 1919: elected chief justice of Cook County Criminal Court • 1920: elected state’s attorney of Cook County • Politically ambitious: desires to become next mayor of Chicago E. The Trial • Darrow prepares the defense by hiring psychiatrists to analyze Leopold and Loeb • Psychiatric report: o Leopold: bullied at school – lonely childhood Governess had sex with him at age 12 Slave-king fantasy Loeb: governess imposes strict discipline at early age; responds by lying to his governess Fantasy of being the perfect criminal • Darrow strategy: o cannot plead the defendants innocent: they have confessed in detail and have shown evidence of the crime to the
The Model T became outdated in the 1920’s. Ford shut down the plant for five months and introduced only mildly successful cars known as the Model A and V-8. Ford didn’t adjust his management style during this time and the Ford Motor Company lost dominance in the automobile industry to General Motors and Chrysler. Henry Ford also refused to sign contracts with the United Automobile Workers (UAW) when this was the standard industry practice. He hired spies and company police to prevent his employees from becoming unionized.
Then in 1970, just three years out of high school, Haywood signed a six-year contract with the Seattle Supersonics worth $15 million. Due to this violation of NBA policy, the NBA looked to stop Haywood from playing. In response, Haywood filed an anti-trust suit against the league, arguing that the four-year rule infringed on Haywood’s right to make a living. The case ultimately went before the Supreme Court, where, in a 7-2 decision, the Court upheld a lower court decision in favor of Haywood. The Court found that barring Haywood from the NBA would cause him “irreparable injury in that a substantial part of his playing career will have been dissipated.”
<BR>Reverse Discrimation <br> <br>Table of Contents <br>Introduction and Background..............................1 <br>The Issues and Arguments for each side...................2 <br>The Opinions and Decisions of the Supreme Court..........4 <br>My Personal Opinion and Arguments........................5 <br>Relevance to Current Issues..............................6 <br>Conclusion...............................................7 <br> <br> Introduction and Background <br> <br> In 1973 a thirty-three year-old Caucasian male named Allan Bakke <br>applied to and was denied admission to the University of California Medical <br>School at Davis. In 1974 he filed another application and was once again <br>rejected,
On the trippes the doctor and Dred meet their wives. Some times they went to Illinois and Wisconsin, but there it were not allowed to have slaves. So when the doctor died, and Dred Scott was given to the doctor’s brother-in-law, Dred soud the Brother-in-law, because he did not believed he belongs to him anymore. Dred Scott, was the first African American to sue his owner. First Dred Scott was owned by the Blow family, but at a time the family got financially
After his parole Malcolm visited Elijah Muhammad in Chicago and a few months after this became assistant minister of the nations temple number one in Detroit. After that he establish a temple in Boston, temple number eleven, in March of 1954 he expanded temple number twelve in Philadelphia, and two months later he was selected to lead temple number seven in Harlem. Malcolm X first came to general public attention after the police beating of Johnson Hinton a Nation of Islam member that suffered brain contusions and subdural hemorrhaging. Malcolm went to the police station Hinton was being held at, demanding for him to receive hospital treatment for Hinton, followed by a crowd of around 4,000 people. After that incident Malcolm was feared by the NYPD because of the power he had over such a crowd.
Page 579 Clinton, Bill 1946- THE 1992 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CLINTON’S FIRST TERM CLINTON’S FOREIGN POLICY SCANDALS, CONTROVERSIES, AND IMPEACHMENT PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF CLINTON DURING HIS PRESIDENCY POSTPRESIDENCY ACTIVITIES BIBLIOGRAPHY Bill Clinton was the forty-second president of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. He was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. His father, William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (1918-1946), was a salesman who died in an auto accident before Clinton was born. When Bill Clinton was fourteen, he legally adopted the surname of his stepfather, Roger C. Clinton Sr. (1908-1967). While attending Georgetown University, Clinton interned with Senator J. William Fulbright
Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899 – May 17, 1977), was an educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School (1927–1929), and president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago.. Hutchins was able to implement his ideas regarding a two-year, generalist bachelors during his tenure at Chicago, and subsequently had designated those studying in depth in a field as masters students. He moreover pulled Chicago out of the Big Ten Conference and eliminated the school’s football program, which he saw as a campus distraction. He also worked to eliminate fraternities and religious organizations for the same reason While modified and reduced in form, the collegiate curriculum at the University of Chicago to this day
He was so smart that he skipped two grades in high school and started his college education at Morehouse College at the young age of fifteen. After getting his degree in sociology from Morehouse, he got a divinity degree from Crozer Seminary and then got his doctor's degree in theology from Boston University. (MLK Bio) In his first major civil rights action, Martin Luther King Jr. led the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This started when Rosa Parks refused to move to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. As a result, Martin led a boycott of the public transportation system.
The Supreme Court and affirmative actions * Regents of the University of California V. Bakke (1978). University of California’s medical school in Davis reserved 16/100 places each year for minority groups. Allan Bakke, a white applicant, was rejected twice. In 5-4 decision, the court ruled that this constituted a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th