Race (noun) meaning a group of people who share a common and distinctive religion, culture, language, and more. Racism (noun) hatred or intolerance of another race or other races. Throughout history there have been many cases that have dealt with this issue, however the two Supreme Court cases Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education are both monumentally important cases to be heard. Both cases argued over the “separate but equal” doctrine. The Plessy v. Ferguson case dealt with a man named Homer Adolph Plessy who was caught sitting in the wrong section of a train, meaning he violated segregation laws made by Louisiana, after arguing that it violated his rights it was brought through all the lower courts before finding its way to
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After long days and multiple court cases later the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was a violation of “separate but equal” and the United States abolished segregation throughout the Country. Without these two cases modern times may still be facing these problems and cause issues based on segregation and racism.
In 1896, the Supreme Court decided the fate of thousands of Americans in the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson. On June 7, 1892, Homer Adolph Plessy was taken off of Louisiana's west train and was arrested. He was charged with violating the Louisiana's separate car act that was passed in 1890, because he was sitting in the “white” car even though he was only one eighth black and seven eighths white, under Louisiana law he was considered black. Plessy argued in court that this violated the thirteenth and fourteenth amendment. The judge on his trial, John Howard Ferguson, had previously concluded that the Separate Car Act was unconstitutional when the train would travel through more than several states. However in this case he concluded that the state could regulate what it wanted to do with its railroad companies that only operated within Louisiana’s state boundaries. Plessy …show more content…
Board of Education. During the 1950’s racial segregation was a social norm for schools across the United States to be segregated, and most white schools were far more inferior than the black schools. In Topeka, Kansas, a third grader named Linda Brown, had to walk a mile and a half through a railroad yard to arrive at her black school, although their was a school less than a mile away but it was for the whites. Oliver Brown, her father had tried many different times to enroll her in the white school, but time and time again the principal had refused. After being denied multiple times Oliver went to, the head of Topeka’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to ask for help with getting his daughter into that school. NAACP was ecstatic to help because they have longed to fight against segregation in schools, and in 1951 NAACP had started its journey challenging segregation. While at trial the NAACP had argued that segregated schools sent the message to black children that they were lower than the whites, making the segregated schools unfair. The judges had agreed with the Board of Education on what they were implying. Though they felt compelled to rule in favor of the Board of Education the court did not, and because of that reason NAACP had appealed their case to the Supreme Court and on December 9 the courts heard the case of Brown v. Board
After long days and multiple court cases later the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was a violation of “separate but equal” and the United States abolished segregation throughout the Country. Without these two cases modern times may still be facing these problems and cause issues based on segregation and racism.
In 1896, the Supreme Court decided the fate of thousands of Americans in the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson. On June 7, 1892, Homer Adolph Plessy was taken off of Louisiana's west train and was arrested. He was charged with violating the Louisiana's separate car act that was passed in 1890, because he was sitting in the “white” car even though he was only one eighth black and seven eighths white, under Louisiana law he was considered black. Plessy argued in court that this violated the thirteenth and fourteenth amendment. The judge on his trial, John Howard Ferguson, had previously concluded that the Separate Car Act was unconstitutional when the train would travel through more than several states. However in this case he concluded that the state could regulate what it wanted to do with its railroad companies that only operated within Louisiana’s state boundaries. Plessy …show more content…
Board of Education. During the 1950’s racial segregation was a social norm for schools across the United States to be segregated, and most white schools were far more inferior than the black schools. In Topeka, Kansas, a third grader named Linda Brown, had to walk a mile and a half through a railroad yard to arrive at her black school, although their was a school less than a mile away but it was for the whites. Oliver Brown, her father had tried many different times to enroll her in the white school, but time and time again the principal had refused. After being denied multiple times Oliver went to, the head of Topeka’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to ask for help with getting his daughter into that school. NAACP was ecstatic to help because they have longed to fight against segregation in schools, and in 1951 NAACP had started its journey challenging segregation. While at trial the NAACP had argued that segregated schools sent the message to black children that they were lower than the whites, making the segregated schools unfair. The judges had agreed with the Board of Education on what they were implying. Though they felt compelled to rule in favor of the Board of Education the court did not, and because of that reason NAACP had appealed their case to the Supreme Court and on December 9 the courts heard the case of Brown v. Board