Alex Ferguson

Homer Plessy, born March 17, 1962, was a member of the Citizens’ Committee of African Americans and Creoles, as he was one-eighth African American. As a form of rebellion against the unjust 1890 law, which stated that segregation via train coaches was perfectly constitutional, Plessy had bought a ticket for the East Louisiana Railway on June 7, 1892. As a test, he informed the train conductor that he was one-eighth black and refused to move from the whites’ only section of the train. Plessy was…

the Board of Education of Topeka, alleging that they are depriving Linda of equal protection of laws as required under the Fourteenth Amendment. The courts denied that there were any violations of Linda Brown’s right because of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, “separate but equal.” The Brown’s appealed their case to the United States Supreme Court. They claimed that schools that were segregated were not equal and never could be made equal. The court combined six…

have set in years to come. However, no such case has accomplished both so easily as the trial of Plessy v. Ferguson. Taking place directly after the reconstruction era, this trial is crucial to establishing the verdicts of latter court cases, shaping popular beliefs, as well as representing the opinions and mindsets of the American people post-civil war. Although the verdict of Plessy v. Ferguson may have set negative precedents concerning civil rights lawsuits, the case progressed its movement…

Due to the Jim Crow Law, that made it legal to segregate blacks form white people, and the “Separate but equal” philosophy that came from the Plessy vs Ferguson case. Black children were separated from white kids, while they learned in school. However, this was not seeming fair or legal to many blacks who argued that it was not legal. This agreement brought the case of Brown verse the Board of Education, to the Supreme Court. How would it significance change the lives of blacks and white…

1. The court case Murray v. Maryland (1936) used precedent from the US Supreme Court Case Plessy v. Ferguson that ruled segregation was constitutional as long as it was separate but equal. Why could using this dogma be problematic in the journey for civil rights? Murray v. Maryland (1936) was won the lower levels of the court system which was quite a victory, at the time getting a judge residing in the south, to see the injustices of segregation was not an easy task. Attorneys working these…

inherently inferior. Some of these laws even included rules that disallowed blacks from acting more intelligent than whites in any way (Pilgrim). The concept of “separate but equal” was reinforced by the decision of the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson where it was decided that a man, Homer Plessy, who was one-eighth black could not sit in the white car of a train (Stewart). This discrimination was emphasized in schooling, where the distribution of funds was controlled by white-controlled…

the boycotts, the sit-ins, and all of the legal battles. such as the Brown v. Board of education ruling. The Brown v. Board of education ruling was a pivotal moment in history, it was the point where all the past segregation cases like Plessy v. Ferguson boiled over, it then sparked the rest of the legal movement of the civil rights, its effect even transcends to today standing for the fact that in America justice surpasses…

America gave a formal answer to the question of racially segregated education in 1954 with the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in Brown v. Board. Immediately, enforcement proved difficult, so the Supreme Court ruled that the first decision should be implemented “with all deliberate speed” in 1955. Even so, segregation in education continued to afflict the nation, especially as southern states devised methods of ignoring the ruling, whether through the formation of new school districts with…

Education was one to the most influential Supreme Court decisions of the 1900’s and changed the American school system forever. This case arose because of the large amount of segregated schools in America made possible because of the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. That case said that schools could be segregated as long as they were equal (McBride). This statement was used to the advantage of pro-segregation due to the fact that separate but equal is a concept that can be interpreted and twisted…

Donald L. Hicks said,"My race is not a better race, it is simply a different race.” Having judgment purely based on someones actions and not their skin color has been a soft spot in the United States for quite some time. Moreover, many cases have ended in favor of one side rather than the other purely because of race. The three cases being discussed all ended in the same ruling, held. Many Supreme Court cases have been judged regarding civil rights: Shelley vs. Kraemer, Loving vs. Virginia, and…