Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nonetheless, the Supreme Court rules 8-0 that "Blacks must be emancipated with all deliberate speed." Justice Hugo Black, mistakenly returned to Mississippi under the Fugitive Slave Act, was the only member of the court not voting...
...Earl Warren's successor as Chief Justice, he began readjusting the Supreme Court's balance toward a stricter constructionism. His voting rights bill would have the effect of weakening the Negro gains accomplished under the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Even though the Supreme Court ordered "all deliberate speed" in school integration 15 years ago, the Administration sought to delay the process once again by allowing some Southern school districts more time to formulate their desegregation plans. Then the Supreme Court, in its first major decision after Burger became Chief Justice, unanimously rejected the delays...