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U.S. Supreme Court

6 dated entries naming U.S. Supreme Court, drawn from 6 separate years between 1886 CE and 1981 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1886May 10 – Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that corporations have the same rights as living persons.source
  • 1896May 18 – Plessy v. Ferguson: The U.S. Supreme Court introduces the separate but equal doctrine, and upholds racial segregation.source

20th century

  • 1961May 4 – U.S. Freedom Riders begin interstate bus rides, to test the new U.S. Supreme Court integration decision.source
  • 1971October 21 – U.S. President Richard Nixon nominates Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. and William H. Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court.source
  • 1972January 28 – Amy Coney Barrett, American attorney, jurist and associate justice, U.S. Supreme Courtsource
  • 1981September 25 – Sandra Day O'Connor takes her seat as the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.source

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