Achieving Racial Equality Within The United States
Out of all the cases that have dealt with racial inequality and segregation Brown v. Board Of Education of Topeka has to be number one on the list for having the biggest impact on those topics. Brown v. Board of Education was a case that would determine the outcome of public education in the United States. It all started with Plessy v. Ferguson when the court created the “separate but equal” doctrine. This doctrine states that if a school choose to be racially segregated that they must provide a separate facility that provides the same accommodations as the original school (this originally was not intended for schools but instead for transportation). With having this doctrine in place schools …show more content…
Those four cases being in all different states were called: Belton v. Gebhart, Briggs v. Elliot, Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, and Bolling v. Shape. All four of these cases had a scenario where a black student was not being admitted into a white school and the separate school did not fulfil the promise of having an equal school. After many debates and discussions of each case the decision of the court ultimately came down in the defendant’s side of the argument each time. Even though these cases were not the ones that threw segregation within public schools away they still paved the way for the success of the decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
Brown v. Board of Education was such a monumental case that it had to be reargued the next year in 1954. During the first time the case was being argued in court …show more content…
Board of Education many basic rights were still not granted to those people that needed it which continued to have racial inequality within the country. It was not until 1964 when the Civil Rights Act which stopped discrimination in public areas and had equal employment rights was officially in play. It was due to the fact that many African- Americans still did not have the most basic of rights in the country such having the right to work where they please and choosing what hotel they did and did not want to stay the night in. The first and most important right is having fair employment in the country, without that nothing equal can happen. In the United States case Griggs v. Duke Power Co. brought up the issue of having a fair and equal working environment. The case background is that Duke Power Company would only hire African- Americans if they had a high school diploma and passed a test, they then would get hired into one out of their 5 operating departments which was called the “labor” department. Where the highest wage being paid in the labor department was the lowest wage being paid in any other department and also if an African-American got promoted they would start back at the lowest part of the ladder for new department. The United States court ruled this a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, because the high school diploma or the two test that were taken in order to get hired were not required according to the description of the
Out of all the cases that have dealt with racial inequality and segregation Brown v. Board Of Education of Topeka has to be number one on the list for having the biggest impact on those topics. Brown v. Board of Education was a case that would determine the outcome of public education in the United States. It all started with Plessy v. Ferguson when the court created the “separate but equal” doctrine. This doctrine states that if a school choose to be racially segregated that they must provide a separate facility that provides the same accommodations as the original school (this originally was not intended for schools but instead for transportation). With having this doctrine in place schools …show more content…
Those four cases being in all different states were called: Belton v. Gebhart, Briggs v. Elliot, Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, and Bolling v. Shape. All four of these cases had a scenario where a black student was not being admitted into a white school and the separate school did not fulfil the promise of having an equal school. After many debates and discussions of each case the decision of the court ultimately came down in the defendant’s side of the argument each time. Even though these cases were not the ones that threw segregation within public schools away they still paved the way for the success of the decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
Brown v. Board of Education was such a monumental case that it had to be reargued the next year in 1954. During the first time the case was being argued in court …show more content…
Board of Education many basic rights were still not granted to those people that needed it which continued to have racial inequality within the country. It was not until 1964 when the Civil Rights Act which stopped discrimination in public areas and had equal employment rights was officially in play. It was due to the fact that many African- Americans still did not have the most basic of rights in the country such having the right to work where they please and choosing what hotel they did and did not want to stay the night in. The first and most important right is having fair employment in the country, without that nothing equal can happen. In the United States case Griggs v. Duke Power Co. brought up the issue of having a fair and equal working environment. The case background is that Duke Power Company would only hire African- Americans if they had a high school diploma and passed a test, they then would get hired into one out of their 5 operating departments which was called the “labor” department. Where the highest wage being paid in the labor department was the lowest wage being paid in any other department and also if an African-American got promoted they would start back at the lowest part of the ladder for new department. The United States court ruled this a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, because the high school diploma or the two test that were taken in order to get hired were not required according to the description of the