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    Using Supreme Court Cases and Primary Sources as Narrative in the Social Studies Classroom

    Raymond and Keith Haynes, unemployed and far from model citizens, sat in the Gay Tavern in Spokane, Washington, drinking from early morning until late evening on December 19, 1957. Their conversation and decision to rob a gas station, as well as Raymond’s subsequent treatment by the Spokane Police Department, would ultimately become legal history in the landmark case, Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966).

    Hate Speech in History: Beauharnais v. Illinois

    American law presently affords wide protection to “hate speech.” In 1952, however, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of an Illinois “group libel” statute under which white separatist Joseph Beauharnais was convicted for publishing a pamphlet in Chicago opposing “the further encroachment, harassment and invasion of white people, their property, neighborhoods and persons, by the Negro.” Beauharnais v. Illinois has never been explicitly overturned.

    19th Amendment Centennial of Women's Right to Vote

    The centennial anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment gives state and local bar associations, lawyers, judges and other legal professionals, educators and civic organizations the opportunity to celebrate 100 years of women’s constitutional right to vote, to educate the public about the Nineteenth Amendment and the battle for women’s suffrage, and to promote law that ensures women’s full and equal exercise of their right to vote and to participate in our democracy.

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