Teaching Civics Yick Wo and the Equal Protection Clause

Yick Wo and the Equal Protection Clause

Posted By llad On January 31, 2017 @ 6:29 pm In | Comments Disabled

From Annenberg Classroom

“This documentary examines the case Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886) in which the Supreme Court held that noncitizens have due process rights under the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause. The Court said that unequal application of a law violated the rights of a Chinese immigrant.”

Watch video (20 min.): http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/page/yick-wo-equal-protection-clause ^[1]

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