• Virginia v. Black, 538 U.S. 343 (2003), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that any state...
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  • Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled that laws banning interracial marriage...
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  • (1992) Sacher v. United States, 343 U.S. 1 (1952) Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 U.S. 1 (1949) Virginia v. Black, 538 U.S. 343 (2003) Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395...
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    stage adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake in its Virginia v. Black decision as an example of a display of cross burning that was not...
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  • not to only protected classes. In 2003, the Supreme Court decided Virginia v. Black. In a 7-2 majority opinion written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor...
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  • West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that the First...
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  • Virginia Black is a brand of American Bourbon whiskey. Virginia Black is a collaboration between Brent Hocking and Drake. It is distributed in the United...
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  • Virginia v. West Virginia, 78 U.S. (11 Wall.) 39 (1871), is a 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that if a governor has discretion...
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  • Virginia State University (VSU or Virginia State) is a public historically Black land-grant university in Ettrick, Virginia. Founded on March 6, 1882 (1882-03-06)...
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    Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast...
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  • v. United States (1971) New York Times Co. v. Tasini (2001) List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 376 Rod Nachman Justices Hugo Black, Arthur...
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  • This is a list of people executed in Virginia after 1976. The Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia, issued in 1976, allowed for the reinstitution...
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  • Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during...
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  • organization, and the paper began publishing articles outlining the findings. The black article appeared in the Times' Sunday edition, on June 13, 1971. By the...
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  • Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U.S. 454 (1960), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court. The case overturned a judgment convicting an African American...
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  • Beauharnais v. Illinois, 343 U.S. 250 (1952) Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969) R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, 505 U.S. 377 (1992) Virginia v. Black, 538...
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  • Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 584 U.S. 617 (2018), was a case in the Supreme Court of the United States that dealt with whether...
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  • United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515 (1996), is a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the long-standing male-only...
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    Bottoms v. Bottoms (1995) United States v. Virginia ("The VMI case") (1996) Arlington County v. White (2000) Atkins v. Virginia (2002) Virginia v. Black (2003)...
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  • Amendment to the fire." In Virginia v. Black (2003), the United States Supreme Court deemed constitutional part of a Virginia statute outlawing the public...
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  • One-drop rule (category Anti-black racism in the United States)
    segregation. Before the rule was outlawed by the Supreme Court in the Loving v. Virginia decision of 1967, it was used to prevent interracial marriages and in...
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  • Cleo Virginia Andrews (June 6, 1923 – December 19, 1986), better known as V. C. Andrews or Virginia C. Andrews, was an American novelist. She was best...
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  • Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court clarifying the legal definition of obscenity as material that...
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  • Hollingsworth v. Virginia, 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 378 (1798), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled early in America's history that the...
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  • racial diversity. Some historically black colleges and universities now have non-black majorities, including West Virginia State University and Bluefield State...
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    Lewis F. Powell Jr. (category Burials at Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia))
    In 1990, Powell swore in Virginia's first black governor, Douglas Wilder. From 1961 to 1969, Powell served on the Virginia Board of Education; he was...
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    LGBT rights activists. In 2010, Black directed his own script Virginia, starring Jennifer Connelly. Also in 2010, Black narrated 8: The Mormon Proposition...
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    juxtapose to flag burning as symbolic speech. In R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul (1992) and Virginia v. Black (2003), the Court held that cross burning is not...
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    along the Virginia-North Carolina border. The valuable land was largely controlled by rich whites, and worked by very poor, primarily black slaves who...
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  • Bigelow v. Virginia, 421 U.S. 809 (1975), was a United States Supreme Court decision that established First Amendment protection for commercial speech...
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