Compare And Contrast Plessy V Ferguson And Brown V Board Of Education

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Register to read the introduction… Head of train crew is called police, hands him over convicts by the court. But Plessy thought that he should enjoy the society, politics, and economical equal power similarly with the American citizens, moreover this judge to be unfair. The federal court believed that the non-white race felt he is the third-rater, their subjective imagination rather than in the legal reason. If two races in the rights of citizens and the political rights aspect are the equality, a race will not be lower than another race in the social life aspect. But if a race lowers than another race in the social life aspect, the federal constitution cannot cause them to impose the identical …show more content…
The United States had a population peak occurs after World War II. The people who born in the first decade of the baby boom are the main protest movement because of they are enrolled in high school or college. Generally, people who advocate the radical young students means radical social and political reform movement, called "New Left" (Coppack, 2008). The people who dropped out of school, drug abuse, and other ways of cultural rebellion, they often did some indulgent actions, as known as the "counter-culture" movement (Walsh, 2009). Why these people have to join counter culture movement? They have dissatisfaction and criticism of the mainstream culture and existing systems. Sympathy for the minorities and women, even the desire for peace are a common feature of these movements. I believe that many the participants of counter-cultural movement are also member of the New Left Movement.
Hippies are good representation of the counter culture movement, it usually involve drug abuse, sex and abortion. History professor Theodore Roszak points out the hippies and radical students have a same point, which is counter-culture. (Roszak, 1995) In his views, counter-cultural movement is all social protest movements in the United States, such as democracy movement, women's liberation movement, black civil rights movement, and anti-war
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Ferguson: Justice Harlan Dissents (1896), U.S. 537
Richard John Neuhaus (2009). The Pro-Life Movement as the Politics of the 1960s Retrieved from http://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/01/001-the-pro-life-movement-as-the-politics-of-the-1960s-49
Martyn Coppack (2008). Dennis Hopper & Peter Fonda in Easy Rider:
1960's Counter-Culture And The Birth Of New Hollywood Retrieved from http://classicfilms.suite101.com/article.cfm/easy_rider
Karine Walsh (2009). Honduras, Colombia, Cuba: the United States are Sticking with the Monroe Doctrine Retrieved from http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16302
Theodore Roszak (1995). The Making of a Counter Culture. University of California Press
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