The Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University reported that in 1960, only 20 percent of the black population finished high school, compared with 43 percent of the white population. Furthermore, only 3 percent of African Americans graduated from college, less than half the white graduation rate of 8 percent. Yet almost 50 years later, a 2013 report by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education indicated that 54 percent of young African Americans were graduating from high school, and 42 percent of African American students were graduating from college, still less than half the rate of white graduates. - ( Balkaran, Stephen. Black Struggles and Achievements Black History Month: Why America Must Never Forget. 25-26)
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Ferguson on May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court ruled that it was legal to have separate facilities for whites and blacks, as long as they were equal facilities. “But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.” was said by Justice John Marshall (Bishop, Erin. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896, Judge Harlan's Dissent. 16-17) and he also argued that forced segregation of the races stamped Blacks with a badge of inferiority. “If one race be inferior to the other socially,” the justices explained, “the Constitution of the United cannot put them on the same plane.” - (Konkoly, Toni. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 10-11). The justices believed that whites were superior to blacks. After the Plessy case, the law created the “separate but equal” doctrine; a legal doctrine
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Ferguson on May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court ruled that it was legal to have separate facilities for whites and blacks, as long as they were equal facilities. “But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.” was said by Justice John Marshall (Bishop, Erin. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896, Judge Harlan's Dissent. 16-17) and he also argued that forced segregation of the races stamped Blacks with a badge of inferiority. “If one race be inferior to the other socially,” the justices explained, “the Constitution of the United cannot put them on the same plane.” - (Konkoly, Toni. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 10-11). The justices believed that whites were superior to blacks. After the Plessy case, the law created the “separate but equal” doctrine; a legal doctrine