Annenberg Classroom: Yick Wo and the Equal Protection Clause

One of the first public signs of equal protection under the law came with the Brown v. Board of Education court case in 1954. Learners use a short video clip to analyze the role equal rights play in the US court system. They research...

Two Supreme Court cases, Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education take center stage in a lesson about the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Class members research both cases to compare and contrast the rulings.

A brief overview of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Includes a link to the full text of the amendment. Discusses equal protection.

The Supreme Court decision in the case of Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886) held that a San Francisco ordinance against Chinese laundries violated the equal protection clause.

In this episode, we discuss the most important part of the Constitution-the Fourteenth Amendment. In particular, we discuss the "equal protection" clause and how it relates to our civil rights. We've discussed in previous episodes civil...

An introduction to the equal protection clause in the Fourteenth Amendment and what it covers.

Crash Course video in which Craig Benzine discusses civil rights, civil liberties and the importance of the 14th Amendment's and the Equal Protection Clause. [8:15]

In this documentary, Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen G. Breyer and other experts discuss how the principle of one person, one vote emerged from a series of landmark decisions in the 1960s, including Baker v. Carr and Reynolds v....

Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Stephen G. Breyer and Anthony M. Kennedy and high school students discuss the Sixth Amendment right to trial by an impartial jury in the context of Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co. In this landmark jury...

The due process clause in the Fifth Amendment can be invoked if the parties feel they have not been given equal protection under the laws, and want to mount a court challenge against the national government.