“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” —Martin Luther King, Jr (Nguyen et al., 2014). This is what people did when they took their civil rights cases to the Supreme Court. When they took their cases to the courts they were hoping to have justice prevail, and sometimes it did, but sometimes it didn't. For example, Dread Scott did this and it influenced the civil rights movement greatly. Three Supreme Court cases influenced the civil rights movement by giving hope to the African Americans and making them want to fight even more: Dred Scott v. Sanford, Brown v. Board of Education, and Loving v. Virginia Dred Scott v. Sanford was only one of the great Supreme Court cases that changed the history of America and African Americans forever. To begin with, Dred Scott was an African Slave that had spent time in a free territory. He believed that because of this, he was now free. Nothing like this had come to the Supreme Court before so it was a new experience. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court ruled that slaves could not use the court systems so he was sent back to his master. Consequently, this angered many slaves and it was used as fuel for the movement. It just made African Americans want to fight for their rights even more (Dred Scott v.
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Virginia is another example of an enormous leap in the civil rights movement. In Virginia, interracial marriage was illegal, likewise in many other states. An interracial couple saw this as unconstitutional and took it to the courts. Fortunately, the Supreme Court gave their judgement and saw the Virginia law as unconstitutional. This meant that blacks and whites could now legally get married. However, people might harass them about it. Loving v. Virginia is another example of cases that gave African Americans hope. These types of cases are the kind that made blacks want to keep trying and what helped them get their equal rights (Loving v.
Virginia is another example of an enormous leap in the civil rights movement. In Virginia, interracial marriage was illegal, likewise in many other states. An interracial couple saw this as unconstitutional and took it to the courts. Fortunately, the Supreme Court gave their judgement and saw the Virginia law as unconstitutional. This meant that blacks and whites could now legally get married. However, people might harass them about it. Loving v. Virginia is another example of cases that gave African Americans hope. These types of cases are the kind that made blacks want to keep trying and what helped them get their equal rights (Loving v.