Historic U.S. Court Cases
Subtitle: An Encyclopedia, Volume II
Edition: Second Edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1089
ISBN-13: 9780415937566
First sentence: Despite the stirring affirmations of equality in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, thousands of legal disputes in the history of the American colonies and the United States have involved discrimination or perceived discrimination against racial minorities, women, homosexuals, and persons with disabilities.