Unconstitutional dramas behind 12 Historic Supreme Court discussions. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions, the court made a unpopular decision. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate dramatically and visually what it means to live and a society with different people who stick together because they believe in the rule of law good evening and welcome to landmark cases tonight were going to look at 1886 case in which the Supreme Court ruled the equal protection guarantees apply not just to citizens but noncitizen s in the next 90 minutes will learn about what led to the case and the effect of its decision on American Society our two guests will help us understand all of this a professor of american. ,. , she will help us to understand the issues around chinese immigration and the chinese exclusion act in the. The president and founder of the organization that creates historical material for has. Give us the most basic facts about this case. So the decision came 18 years
Well, it said the law said that all new laundries had to be constructed out of brick or stone, but existing laundries, which were made out of wood, which they all were, practically all were, could only continue to operate if they got a permit from the city. And this is what led to this charade, really, where they approved all the permit applications that white people made, say for one, and they denied all the chinese. So in a way this is not really about fire safety. It was one of quite a number of municipal ordinances that were passed to harass the chinese. If we make life so miserable for them, if we make it impossible for them to earn a living, maybe they will leave. So enter lee wiyick, who is e of the proprietors, he had been running it for 20 years. His name was not yick wo, his name was lee yick. That was the name of the laundromat. When the original case was filed, no one bothered to fix it that they didnt get the guys name right, which showed you how much they cared about Peop
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