Does racism still exist today? Yes, of course it does it happens everywhere, people discriminate other people based on their color and their background. Segregation happened a long time ago back in the 1800s, this is where people would have to be separated based on their color and they would have to go to different schools, drink from different water fountains and much more. In America racism there were two cases that led to each other the first one was Plessy vs. Ferguson, and then Brown v Board of Education both of these were also based on the phrase “ separate but equal.” Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education are two landmark cases that changed the course of American history. In 1896 the Supreme Court decided the fate of thousands
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During the 1950s schools were segregated by race. Linda Brown had to go through a dangerous railroad route to get to her bus stop even though she lived close to a school but it was only for white people. Brown and her family said that the segregated school system violated the 14th amendment. The federal court stated that segregation in education was harmful because of this. And the court decided that states requiring separate but equal violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th amendment (History channel) Luckily the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Brown. The justices also found it unlikely that a child won't be able to succeed without a good education. The phrase separate but equal actually meant something throughout the case, because it changed the way people thought about it. It was not something people could count on, even though black people and white people would get segregated there would still be consequences and situations they would go …show more content…
The Plessy v Ferguson impacted people because it didn't win the ruling when they went to court twice. Separate but equal doctrine wasn't payed the most attention, it didn't help society, nor did it help with keeping the people calm and peaceful. The Court concluded that “if one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution … cannot put them upon the same plane.” Until later on when Brown v Board of education became a big deal, and it changed lives, and the U.S. Because it was dangerous for children to go to their bus stops meanwhile there was a school closer to them, separate but equal did not help it just made things worse. Segregating children in public education created and perpetuated the idea that African American children held a lower status in the community than white children, even if their separate educational facilities were substantially equal in “tangible”
During the 1950s schools were segregated by race. Linda Brown had to go through a dangerous railroad route to get to her bus stop even though she lived close to a school but it was only for white people. Brown and her family said that the segregated school system violated the 14th amendment. The federal court stated that segregation in education was harmful because of this. And the court decided that states requiring separate but equal violated the Equal Protection clause of the 14th amendment (History channel) Luckily the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Brown. The justices also found it unlikely that a child won't be able to succeed without a good education. The phrase separate but equal actually meant something throughout the case, because it changed the way people thought about it. It was not something people could count on, even though black people and white people would get segregated there would still be consequences and situations they would go …show more content…
The Plessy v Ferguson impacted people because it didn't win the ruling when they went to court twice. Separate but equal doctrine wasn't payed the most attention, it didn't help society, nor did it help with keeping the people calm and peaceful. The Court concluded that “if one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution … cannot put them upon the same plane.” Until later on when Brown v Board of education became a big deal, and it changed lives, and the U.S. Because it was dangerous for children to go to their bus stops meanwhile there was a school closer to them, separate but equal did not help it just made things worse. Segregating children in public education created and perpetuated the idea that African American children held a lower status in the community than white children, even if their separate educational facilities were substantially equal in “tangible”