“Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody." (Barack Obama). Segregation was huge back in the days in the south and it was immediate. That affected the way everyone lived, their rights, education and how they were treated as a person. Ignorance interfered with the realization of the truth, that everyone is equal. In addition, three cases influenced the end of segregation tremendously: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), Brown v. Board of education (1954), and Loving v. Virginia (1967). Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) is the case of whites and blacks being separate but equal. It all started when a law was made to make everything separate. A group of black creole and white New Orleans dedicated the Comité des Citoyens (Committee of Citizens) to repeal the law. Then they got Homer Plessy to participate. Plessy bought a train ticket for only
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Board of Education is another very important case that shows that the ignorance in adults are affecting the next generation, the children. This court case is about segregation at schools between the whites and the negros being unconstitutional. Oliver L. Brown was African American with a daughter in the third grade had to walk six blocks to her bus stop to go to the segregated black school when she could just walk seven blocks and go to the closer school. Meanwhile, only problem is that school is a white school. Some of the parents tried to enroll their children to the closest schools but they were all refused and sent to the segregated school. After, court found that segregation in public schools was going to be harmful on the negros. The final ruling was that the Supreme Court found that discrimination to be unlawful. "But striking down segregation in the nation’s public schools provided a major catalyst for the civil rights movement, making possible advances in desegregating housing, public accommodations, and institutions of higher education."
Board of Education is another very important case that shows that the ignorance in adults are affecting the next generation, the children. This court case is about segregation at schools between the whites and the negros being unconstitutional. Oliver L. Brown was African American with a daughter in the third grade had to walk six blocks to her bus stop to go to the segregated black school when she could just walk seven blocks and go to the closer school. Meanwhile, only problem is that school is a white school. Some of the parents tried to enroll their children to the closest schools but they were all refused and sent to the segregated school. After, court found that segregation in public schools was going to be harmful on the negros. The final ruling was that the Supreme Court found that discrimination to be unlawful. "But striking down segregation in the nation’s public schools provided a major catalyst for the civil rights movement, making possible advances in desegregating housing, public accommodations, and institutions of higher education."