[We have the following announcement from the Supreme Court Historical Society. DRE]
Rights, Commerce, and Reform: A New Era of Supreme Court History Classroom Resources
Discover Supreme Court History from 1874-1921 with a new era of resources from Beyond the Bench, our civics education website. The new era, Rights, Commerce, and Reform, includes over 20 new case summaries, resources, and life stories from the Waite, Fuller, and White Courts ready for classroom use.
Featured resources include:
- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Boston native, Civil War soldier, and Associate Justice whose legal theories revolutionized modern understanding of the law;
- Belva Lockwood: The educator, activist, and attorney who became both the first woman to argue before the Supreme Court and to run for President of the United States;
- Civil Rights Cases (1883): The Supreme Court decision that held the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to be unconstitutional and paved the way for Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and Jim Crow segregation;
- Muller v. Oregon (1911): The Supreme Court decision that upheld a gender-based state labor law and created a clear legal distinction between men and women in the workplace;
- Standard Oil Co. v. United States (1908): The Supreme Court decision that established the “rule of reason” in antitrust law and demonstrated the government’s power to regulate monopolies and increase competition; and
- The Judiciary Act of 1891: The law that created the United States Courts of Appeals and helped shape the modern Judiciary.
