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57. All persons born or naturalized in the United States . . . are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person . . . equal protection of the laws.This amendment has been most important in protecting the
58. To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority . . . that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. . . . We conclude that in the field of public education separate but equal has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.-1954The quotation is from which Supreme Court decision?
59. We hold, that on their separation from the Crown of Great Britain, the several colonies became free and independent States, each enjoying the separate and independent right of self-government; and that no authority can be exercised over them or within their limits, but by their consent. It is equally true, that the Constitution of the United States is a compact formed between the several States.-From "Address to the People of the United States," issued by the South Carolina Convention of 1832This passage highlights a tension between
60. Source H: This is a quotation taken from an interview with Mike Royko, who became a journalist in Chicago.I was nine years old when the war started. It was a typical Chicago working-class neighborhood. It was predominantly Slavic, Polish. . . . In those days they put out extras. I remember the night the newsboys came through the neighborhood. . . . Germany had invaded Poland: ’39. It was the middle of the night, my mother and father waking. People going out in the streets in their bathrobes to buy the papers. In our neighborhood with a lot of Poles, it was a tremendous story.Suddenly you had a flagpole. And a marker. Name went on the marker, guys from the neighborhood who were killed. Our neighborhood was decimated. There were only kids, older guys, and women. Suddenly I saw something I hadn’t seen before. My sister became Rosie the Riveter. She put a bandanna on her head every day and went down to this organ company that had been converted to war work. There was my sister in slacks. It became more than work. There was a sense of mission about it. Her husband was Over There. . . .There was the constant idea that you had to be doing something to help. It did filter down to the neighborhood: home-front mobilization. We had a block captain. . . .The world was very simple. I saw Hitler and Mussolini and Tojo: those were the villains. We were the good guys. . . .What can you learn from the Royko quotation?
