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History generally gives us the ability to make important distinctions between complicated issues that arise throughout time. In particular, there were two monumental cases that brings about change in perspective. Plessy v. Ferguson and Bradwell v. Louisiana both indulge in constitutional debates that shaped our current perspectives. Plessy v. Ferguson case reiterated the separate but equal clause, that the constitution is "color-blind," and that the facilities as long as they were equal, can be…

The PBS, “separate but equal” documentary focuses on how public schools’ education in Louisiana has depleted over time. The primary education facility is Woodlawn High school, a very diverse public school. Prior to the Plessey v. Ferguson Supreme Court case, it was a segregated school. Having an integrated public school gives minorities’ equal opportunity. However, a part of Baton Reus wants to segregate into its own separate city, called “St. George”. If the new district order were to happen,…

After listening to this sound bite, I see how segregation is still an issue in some parts of America. The school is Mississippi was still having segregated proms even though segregation was illegal. Hearing about this surprised me because I thought that there was no more segregation in any American schools. The school was integrated, yet the prom was not. A student who was interviewed even said that she thought it was strange. She stated that there were not many problems with racism in the…

The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas was a case based on the unequal segregation of the public schools within the white and black communities. During this time period, slavery has been abolished for roughly one hundred years; however, segregation is still a big thing around this time. Racial segregation is the separation, either by law or by action, of people of different races in all manner of daily activities (Racial). In Topeka, Kansas, they were supposed to be following the…

Historically, the Supreme Court has made many bad decision where it chose to not strike down oppressive rights of racial minorities such as cases like Korematsu v. U.S. which allowed the removal of Japanese-American from the West Coast during WWII or the case of Plessy v. Ferguson which allowed racial segregation. Public opinion enacts some restrictions on unfair policies but with a government as large and complex as ours, many of its abuses are not known to voters, because we generally pay…

Plessy V. Ferguson “The law is not an end in and of itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right” (Aaseng, 8). After the Civil War, in 1865, the US continued to remain a union divided. Although slavery was abolished, African Americans did not have the same rights as Whites. The new laws that were continuing to be passed limited the so called “freedom” that African Americans had. These laws didn’t allow Black’s do use the same facilities, vote,…

segregated due to the Jim Crow time. Why is places still segregated? Didn’t the Brown v. Board of Education case say that segregation has to stop in school systems? Segregation was a huge factor and still is a huge factor regardless of what the court case decision was. What is so important about segregation, it has to be stopped immediately for all Americans. In May of 1945, the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education came about in Topeka, Kansas. Based on the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson…

Briggs v. R.W Elliott - South Carolina: In 1951, in Clarendon County, South Carolina, twenty courageous African-American parents filed a lawsuit against school officials, for their own children received unequal education services compared to the all-white schools. In South Carolina, young African-American children had to walk far distances to attend schools. Some students even had to walk an eight-mile distance to school. They were not allowed to travel on school-provided transportation such as…

Understanding known as the Norwalk Agreement. In 2006, the two boards established goals to be reached by 2008, proving that their agreement was quite strong. These goals include things such as improving accounting standards, updating the education of U.S. accountants, and improving upon the structure of the IASB. In 2008, the MoU was updated to put an emphasis on joint projects as a way of producing uniform principles. In 2012, the two boards published a joint progress…

and legal. Once formed, these separated schools were anything but equal, from both a quality of education, and a future opportunity aspect. However, in 1954 the Supreme Court overruled the previous decision made in 1896, in a case known as Brown v. Board of Education (Topeka, Kansas.) The case involved a man named Oliver Brown, who was the father of a student who had been refused entry into one of Topeka, Kansas’ white schools. The Supreme Court unanimously decided that separating children into…