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541 BLACKS AND THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION (continued) Page Two

TOPICS AND READINGS
I. Introduction

BELL: Chapter 1
Declaration of Independence, original and published drafts
U.S. Constitution as originally adopted
U.S. Bill of Rights
State of Wisconsin Constitution

II. Slavery in the United States

BELL: Chapter 1
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Dred Scott vs Sandford 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857)
Somerset vs Stewart 98 Eng. Rep. 499 (K. B. 1772)
Emancipation Proclamation

III. Reconstruction

13, 14 and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
BELL: Chapter 2
Hayes/Tildman Presidential Election Compromise 1877

IV. Immediate Post Reconstruction

BELL: Chapter 3

V. Twentieth Century Issues

A. Public Accommodations and Facilities
B. Education
C. Employment
D. Housing
E. Health and Human Services
F. Voting and Reapportionment
G. Administration of Justice

BELL: Chapters 4 through 9
Plessy vs Ferguson
Brown vs Board of Education I & II
1965 Voting Rights Act
Gomillion vs Lightfoot
Jones vs Mayer
Shelley vs Kramer
Washington vs Davis
United Steelworkers of America vs Weber
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Bakke vs Regents of Univ. of California and other seminal cases
L. Higgenbotham, In The Matter of Color: Race and the American Process