Fiber cement. Fiber cement siding is made from a mixture of sand, Portland cement, water, and cellulose that is steam heated and formed into planks. The result is a durable product that is resistant to damage, rot and insects.
After making its way through the District Courts, the Brown case went to the Supreme Court. In 1954, sixty years after Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that âseparate but equalâ was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.n the decades following the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court overturned laws barring blacks from juries (Strauder v. West Virginia, 1880) or discriminating against Chinese Americans in the regulation of laundry businesses (Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 1886), as violations of the Equal Protection Clause.