As we close out our series on Supreme Court cases, we turn to our final case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke in 1978, which is probably the single most important Supreme Court case concerning affirmative action

This week, we look at the case of Baker v. Carr (1962) the case that began the process of making one man, one vote the law of the land, and ending Gerrymandering.

This week, we consider the case that finally put Jim Crow on the path to extinction, Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

This week, we focus on Yick Wo vs. Hopkins (1886), one of the Supreme Court decisions that attacked discrimination or its effects and so helped bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

This week we look at Korematsu vs. the United States (1944) which will be the final case in our consideration of the Supreme Court’s “anti-canon” of decisions that made the moral arc of the universe that much longer by sanctioning some form of discrimination.

Join us this week as we turn to the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896. Learn how for nearly sixty years, the decision in this case set a precedent that gave legal permission to many forms of segregation in our nation’s history.

This week, we turn to The Civil Rights Cases: a group of five cases whose decision touched on different civil rights questions and firmly established a legal basis for the Jim Crow era of segregation.

In our fourth week, we examine the Slaughterhouses Cases, in which The Supreme Court interpreted the three reconstruction amendments for the first time.

This week, we turn to the case of Scott Vs. Sanford. This case, popularly known as “The Dred Scott Case,” led to the US Supreme Court’s single worst decision.

In our second week of this series, we review McCulloch vs. Maryland, which established two constitutional principles that played important roles in the struggle for civil rights.

Our new Our American Values series focuses on the US Supreme Court and its role in the struggle for civil rights through some milestone cases. In this first week, we look at the case of Marbury vs. Madison to build a foundation for our series.