Civil Rights Court Case on Segregation: How did the court cases about segregation affect the American views on the realism of racial prejudices and justice? The Civil Rights movement was during 1954 through 1968 dealing with the Jim Crow laws that were enacted after the Reconstruction Era. These Jim Crow laws had segregated multiple races (mainly African Americans) and imposed African Americans as second-class citizens. The Jim Crow laws had created separate schooling, writing rooms and segregated public facilities. The Civil Rights Era was a time that dealt with multiple controversial issues, such as segregation in the education system and in the general public. Some of these controversial court cases that dealt with segregation and changed
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Board of Education of Topeka is Plessy v. Ferguson. Plessy v. Ferguson was a court case that dealt with the issue of segregation and the racial definition of colored people. This was based on the Civil Rights Case in 1883, where the court stated, the equal protection clause in the fourteenth amendment provided no guarantee against private segregation. Adolph Plessy was of mixed descent (he was one-eighth African American and seven-eighth Caucasian). He was arrested on June 7, 1892 due to his defiance in purposely sitting in a white only passenger car on the East Louisiana Railway from New Orleans to Covington. Plessy sat in this passenger car to initiate a case that challenged the demeaning Jim Crow Laws (Pearson Education). Plessy didn 't consider himself to be an African American, unlike the rest of society and could easily pass for white. The railroad company was considered a common carrier, which meant that the company wasn 't supposed to discriminate or distinguish people based on their race. Plessy was charged by an officer who was guilty of violating an act of the general assembly of the state. This act was approved in 1890. The statute stated, "That all railway companies carrying passengers in their coaches in this state, shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white, and colored races by providing two or more passenger coaches for each passenger train or by dividing the passenger coaches to secure separate accommodations." It also stated that, "officers of such passenger trains shall have the power and are required to assign each passenger to the compartment used for the race to whom the passenger belonged to. If the passenger doesn 't comply, they shall be liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars or imprisoned for a period not more than twenty days." The ruling from this case was that, "separate but equal" was okay with a seven to one majority
Board of Education of Topeka is Plessy v. Ferguson. Plessy v. Ferguson was a court case that dealt with the issue of segregation and the racial definition of colored people. This was based on the Civil Rights Case in 1883, where the court stated, the equal protection clause in the fourteenth amendment provided no guarantee against private segregation. Adolph Plessy was of mixed descent (he was one-eighth African American and seven-eighth Caucasian). He was arrested on June 7, 1892 due to his defiance in purposely sitting in a white only passenger car on the East Louisiana Railway from New Orleans to Covington. Plessy sat in this passenger car to initiate a case that challenged the demeaning Jim Crow Laws (Pearson Education). Plessy didn 't consider himself to be an African American, unlike the rest of society and could easily pass for white. The railroad company was considered a common carrier, which meant that the company wasn 't supposed to discriminate or distinguish people based on their race. Plessy was charged by an officer who was guilty of violating an act of the general assembly of the state. This act was approved in 1890. The statute stated, "That all railway companies carrying passengers in their coaches in this state, shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white, and colored races by providing two or more passenger coaches for each passenger train or by dividing the passenger coaches to secure separate accommodations." It also stated that, "officers of such passenger trains shall have the power and are required to assign each passenger to the compartment used for the race to whom the passenger belonged to. If the passenger doesn 't comply, they shall be liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars or imprisoned for a period not more than twenty days." The ruling from this case was that, "separate but equal" was okay with a seven to one majority