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At the time, West Virginia excluded African-Americans from juries. Strauder was an African-American man who, at trial, had been convicted of murder—convicted, necessarily, by an all-white jury. Strauder appealed his conviction, contending that West Virginia's exclusionary policy violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Official language(s) English Capital Charleston Largest city Charleston Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 41st 62,809 km² 210 km 385 km 0. ... African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and make it easier to understand, this article or section may require cleanup. ... An appeal is the act or fact of challenging a judicially cognizable and binding judgment to a higher judicial authority. ... The Equal Protection Clause is a part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, providing that no state shall . ... The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is one of the post-Civil War amendments and includes the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses. ... The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. ...

The majority, speaking through Justice William Strong, held that exclusion of blacks from juries for no other reason than their race did indeed violate the Equal Protection Clause, since the very purpose of the Clause was "to assure to the colored race the enjoyment of all the civil rights that under the law are enjoyed by white persons, and to give to that race the protection of the general government, in that enjoyment, whenever it should be denied by the States." The Court did not say that exclusion of blacks from the jury violated the rights of potential jury members; rather, such exclusion violated the rights of a black criminal defendant, since juries would be "drawn from a panel from which the State has expressly excluded every man of [a defendant's] race." Justice William Strong William Strong (May 6, 1808 - August 19, 1895) was an American jurist and politician. ...

See also

• Batson v. Kentucky

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