People go through life trying to make it work, but it is amazing how two little cases can change how we live together as one nation. Plessy vs. Ferguson goes back to April 1896 and what this case made for the future, then Brown vs. Board of Education that goes back to December 1952 and what this case did for the future, finally what kind of impact these two cases had on the nation. It has to take two cases to change the way people looked at the word “Equal”, and what it truly meant. Going back to the 1800’s starts the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson.
Plessy vs. Ferguson case is a case that set a precedent of “separate but equal” was not the way we were suppose to be looking at black and white races. This case, Plessy got in trouble for sitting …show more content…
Board of education. This case was about a mother whose child wasn’t getting proper education because they were black. “In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Brown. The Court found the practice of segregation unconstitutional and refused to apply its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson to “the field of public education.” Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the opinion for the Court.” (Landmark Cases, Brown, Summary) Mrs. Brown believed schools shouldn’t be segregated. She believed that all children should be created equal. Plessy case set a precedent for the brown vs. board of education. “Segregation of white and Negro children in the public schools of a State solely on the basis of race, pursuant to state laws permitting or requiring such segregation, denies to Negro children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment - even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors of white and Negro schools may be equal.” (Findlaw.com) The fourteen and sixteen amendments of the constitution were used in this case, but they weren’t viewed in the manner that they were written they were viewed has the white judges wanted to view
Plessy vs. Ferguson case is a case that set a precedent of “separate but equal” was not the way we were suppose to be looking at black and white races. This case, Plessy got in trouble for sitting …show more content…
Board of education. This case was about a mother whose child wasn’t getting proper education because they were black. “In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Brown. The Court found the practice of segregation unconstitutional and refused to apply its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson to “the field of public education.” Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the opinion for the Court.” (Landmark Cases, Brown, Summary) Mrs. Brown believed schools shouldn’t be segregated. She believed that all children should be created equal. Plessy case set a precedent for the brown vs. board of education. “Segregation of white and Negro children in the public schools of a State solely on the basis of race, pursuant to state laws permitting or requiring such segregation, denies to Negro children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment - even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors of white and Negro schools may be equal.” (Findlaw.com) The fourteen and sixteen amendments of the constitution were used in this case, but they weren’t viewed in the manner that they were written they were viewed has the white judges wanted to view