Regents of University of California at Davis v. Bakke Mock Trial

In this mock trial of Regents of the University of California. Davis v Bakke, Bakke believed that the university had violated his fourteenth amendment. This goes back into history which had happened to African-Americans, not white people. Even though Bakke was slightly older than the other candidates by being in his late thirties. 

He wasn’t able to get into medical school right away because his service in the military delayed his starting time to go into medical school which he couldn’t help that this happened to him. The system didn’t understand that his military service caused him to be away and not finish school on time. 

The admissions people did violate Title IV in the fourteenth amendment for denying his admission to the school which goes back to the hard times for African-Americans before they got their rights. Plus Allan Bakke had to overcome being in the military by surviving through boot camp and fighting in dangerous times. Some other applicants don’t understand that Bakke has been through a lot more than which makes him different from other people. 

Also, the court thought he didn’t deserve it because they were trying to make the school more diverse with their quota system to accept certain others. Everyone should deserve a chance of wanting to accomplish their dreams at any time in life. Bakke was considered a well-rounded student for his service in the military and a great academic career. He had some better qualities than some other applicants who were younger than him and had more maturity. 

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Professor Smith's Academic Paper

The writer was talking about the shield law in Maryland that is pointed towards journalists. The ideas of this law protect the writers from using certain disclosures have caused many of them to get into trouble. This concept was later adapted into other states as history went on over time. 

The idea behind the law is to get the people to understand the meaning of it. It had to work on some possibilities towards believing that law had some other ways in that position.  In the paper it said, “Conseverly, debates and  lawmaking in the statutory realm can influence the development of constitutional law”,  (Smith  8). 

The judicial principles are reasoning towards the beliefs in that law. There are some other efforts on this law that made the journalists have a hard time. The non-judicial actors were trying to determine to get the point of making the privilege get passed into something important. 

While the Maryland shield law had some other standards that had been taken into consideration by the. According to the academic paper. “The non-judicial precedents we're doing four things at the time”, (Smith 12). It has been noticed that for some writers on those that had to work making sure their work was correct and not stolen from someone else.  

The First Shield Law

March on Washington

I learned many interesting facts from watching that documentary in class which I thought was really cool to do. A lot of famous people were a part of the March on Washington at that time and wanted African Americans to have equal rights like white people do. Oprah Winfrey was there on that day for the march. 

President Kennedy was reluctant at first to join in the movement because he believed communism was included in this movement, and no it was not at all. His administration wanted to help get a bill passed in Congress for a Civil Rights Act. He told his advisors he wanted the bill to go through in one night not have to wait on it being discussed and other procedures. The people were getting tired of them waiting for Congress to do something about it. 

The city of Birmingham was one of the reasons that the March on Washington had happened in history. The city was considered one of the most segregated cities in the United States during that time. The white people would just hurt the black intentionally without any reason because they enjoyed doing it as a pleasure. The African Americans were pushing for fairness like with Vivian Malone Jones became the black student at the University of Alabama to register for classes. 

Martin Luther King Jr. did give a good speech at the March On Washington which had spoken to everyone at the march. The crowd was screaming for him when he finished giving his speech to them. 

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Klansville, USA

In this documentary, it talks about the Ku Klux Klan spreading all over the state of North Carolina at the heights of segregation. It had become one of the largest charters for the Ku Klux 

Klan in the United States at the time. Bob Jones had wanted his message of not wanting to integrate in North Carolina and had many events speaking his points on it. 

Jones was well known with the klan since his parents were both parts of it and influenced him to believe those ideas. He became the grand dragon of the klan in 1963. They had done a march on Washington to spread their word to everyone in the country while dawning those white robes and hoods. Some of the people interviewed for the documentary had believed that Bob did this because he really had nothing else doing for him in life, so he decided to take this path. 

The African Americans were standing up for themselves wanting their voices to be heard by the people. The Civil Rights movement was really big at the time with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking up for them. The members of the klan started doing some things to the African-Americans which turned into violence. They would torture them to death in many hurtful ways. 

Bob Jones wanted the people to know that he was in charge of his way of speaking at rallies. His perspective had caused many people to join him on the klan and be part of the charter in North Carolina.

Ku Klux Klan Reference 

EOTO Team 2 10/21/2020

In my team, we did the harm that was done to the African Americans during that time period. It had due to many deaths and tortures that were trauma onto them later on in life. Lynching was a major topic on the harm that was done to African Americans. It had led to many deaths in the south which was where most of the killings had happened. It turns out that white and black were both being lynched by people who believe they deserve punishment. 

Also, the Second Ku Klux Klan happened again, and they started to make some messages known to everyone about how they feel about African-Americans living in their country. This group was the one to dawn the white robes and hoods which became significant that’s still part of the Ku Klux Klan to this day. They did do some violent things to African Americans involving torturing them to death and killing them by the riverbed method. They weren't really into trouble with the law in this situation because the authorities were fine with it and let them keep doing it. 

The poll tax was another issue that the African Americans were dealing with since it was violating one of their rights which was the right to vote. It required them to pay a fee to vote or take a test to see if they could vote, which was a disadvantage for black people at the time very much so. They took this problem to court and showed that the states were violating their rights on the African Americans which caused them to change that policy on poll taxing. They changed it for federal elections mostly. 

Black History Timeline

EOTO Team 1 10/21/2020

This EOTO team had talked about the good things of the African Americans. They showed their information on a PowerPoint that did slides on the jazz age. The jazz music times were popular with everyone. 

They covered the NAACP who had fought for the rights of African Americans through the law system. Thurgood Marshall was involved in this before becoming supreme court justice on the Supreme Court. They had made their movement become very popular all over the United States.

The Harlem Renaissance had come into New York which caused a change in culture and the neighborhood of Harlem as well. They did it in art and literature, so it helped put them on the map in that way for their culture to become something to be part of. Their creativity has inspired many people today to do something different from everyone. 

The U.S. military had started to let in African-Americans as soldiers to be with the white soldiers during that time. The official integration didn’t start until June 1941 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt had ordered it. Some of them got the highest honors for their bravery and courage during the times of war. It showed changes that were going in the way of African Americans which was finally happening for them. It was making some standard for them along the way to changing history at this time of segregation. 

They had also brought about Jackie Robinson who changed the game of baseball by being the first colored player to player to play in a game. He led the way for African Americans to be able to play in Major League Baseball for the rest of the time. 

Harlem Renaissance

Brown v. Board of Education Mock Trial

In this trial, the people are arguing over the case of Brown v. Board of Education to see if colored children deserved to be in the white schools. The people on the side of Brown believed that African-Americans are still mistreated even after they developed the separate, but equal doctrine. Oliver Brown’s daughter was still denied to be in the white school which had violated the 14th amendment for his daughter. 

They had believed that children deserved to get to know the other race and would make the world a better place instead of being segregated. This keeps hurting African-American kids more and works on fixing certain things. 

While on the stateside, they think that segregation should keep on going, and don’t need to change anything. They want to keep it balanced with a good ratio that isn’t unbalanced for them which will make the white people upset that the black people are getting better treatment than them in certain ideals. It will lead to society crumbling in a bad way if this happens to allow less segregation in the states. Their opinion is pointing towards that the states should decide if they want to keep having segregation laws against African-Americans since it’s not a federal problem to them. 

It has wanted the African Americans to be held back during this time, and not to keep breaking through no more. The Board believed that it is following the laws even under the separate, but equal doctrine at this time. They are still arguing over this even after Plessy’ trial which has not gotten better nor made progress. This is mostly a state’s right issue not needing the federal government to get involved in this situation. The verdict had decided that the Board of Education had won the court case. 

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