Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education, 476 U.S. 267 (1986), was a case before the United States Supreme Court. It is the seminal case for the "strong-basis-in-evidence...

Michael G. Wygant (born 1936), American diplomat Wygant State Natural Area, a state park in Oregon, US Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education, United States...

segregation unconstitutional in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education, Southern Democrats began a campaign of "massive resistance" against desegregation,...

these differences in Gaston County v. United States, 395 U.S. 285 (1969). There, because of the inferior education received by Negroes in North Carolina...

appointment of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers at the time, the cases were split with Jackson recusing from...

right was later overruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022). The Supreme Court's decision in Lochner v. New York has been criticized by...

pp. 28–29. Green v. County School Board, 391 U.S. 430 (1968). Green, 391 U.S. at 441. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U.S. 1 (1970)...

Firefighters v. NAACP, 461 U.S. 477 (1983) 1984 — Firefighters v. Stotts, 467 U.S. 561 (1984) 1986 — Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education, 476 U.S. 267...

basis of race or color." He cited Justice Powell who, announcing the strong-basis-in-evidence standard for the plurality in Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education...

Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), was a landmark case of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning affirmative action in student admissions...