The Constitution Project: Yick Wo and the Equal Protection Clause
- Video
- 2009
- 21m
!["Yick Wo and Civil Liberties" examines the story of an unlikely Constitutional hero and the extraordinary impact the ruling in his case has had on how we see the Constitution today.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTc0NjUxOTQ2OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzI3MDA0Nw@@._V1_QL75_UX500_CR0,47,500,281_.jpg)
We don't know a lot about Yick Wo. We're not even sure that was his name. But it was the name of the laundry business he owned in San Francisco in the late nineteenth century. And it was the... Read allWe don't know a lot about Yick Wo. We're not even sure that was his name. But it was the name of the laundry business he owned in San Francisco in the late nineteenth century. And it was the name listed on a Supreme Court decision that forever changed American law. In 1880, the c... Read allWe don't know a lot about Yick Wo. We're not even sure that was his name. But it was the name of the laundry business he owned in San Francisco in the late nineteenth century. And it was the name listed on a Supreme Court decision that forever changed American law. In 1880, the city of San Francisco passed a health and safety ordinance: all laundries in wooden buildin... Read all