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Homer Plessy was a 30 years old mixed race ( 1/8 black and 7/8 white) man. He was born on March 17, 1862, in New Orleans, Louisiana. His imployment was a shoe maker. If you where to look at plessy you would be supprised that he was mixed raced. He was very light and to regular people he seemed white. He had typiocal hair every white male had and color and skin tone. This all started back when plessy bought a first-class railroad car seat. When he was about to broad…

The United States prides themselves as being the land of the free, a place where people can come and live the American dream. Our country hasn’t always been free for everyone, though. African-Americans have not always been free; they were slaves before the Civil War and after the Civil War, for about 100 years, they were still treated unfairly and punished for not being inferior to the whites in their community. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments were violated by the federal,…

Brown v. Board of Education Before, During, and After Rich in history, the case Brown v. Board of Education began a change in the direction of education for students and families. This made it possible to see the promise of educating all students equally. Brown not only changed the course of education, but also served as a vessel to begin closing the social gap between races. This paper 's intent is to bring understanding of the history prior to, during, and after Brown v. Board…

after the Civil War. The victory of the Union slowly improved the treatment of African American citizens. However, there are also laws approved later on to restrict their freedom unequally from the whites like the Jim Crow Laws and the Plessy v. Ferguson case. Many activists and protesters have fought to repeal them for better treatment and racial equality. Some were successful though some were not. Also, the end of World War II was the start of a new…

After the 1920’s World War 1 had finally ended and America was starting to return to their normal lives. However, immigrants and African Americans seemed to be a continued problem for America. Economic prosperity failed to prevent social, cultural, and political divisions between the United States. Political cartoons such as “The Menace of Modern Immigration” and “The Teapot Dome Scandal” show political divisions after the 20’s. The Monkey Trial, which also shows a cultural division between the…

Ferguson (1896) case. This Supreme-Court decision declared segregation constitutional and said that there could be separate but equal facilities for whites and African-Americans. The legitimization of segregation opened the doors for the Jim Crow Laws in…

Low performance scores and the achievement gap among students is a highly debated topic in the United States. According to Sherrow, “As of 2010, about 99,000 public schools in the United States were educating more than 48 million students.” The 2007 recession impacted many public schools because the budget for public schools diminished; therefore, many schools had to teach more students with less resources. The recession left the issue of how to improve schools when there are less teachers and…

The first case is about Plessy v Ferguson which is a case that determined whether or not racial segregation is constitutional under the separate but equal doctrine. The second case is about Brown v Board of Education which decided that state laws requiring separate but equal schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Both cases had a powerful effect on the precedents that we now have in today's justice system. Plessy v Ferguson established the doctrine of “Separate but…

struggle towards equality which is far from over today. This struggle has been experienced by various groups of individuals, including African Americans, women, Hispanics, Native Americans, and individuals with disabilities. In 1986, the Plessy v. Ferguson case resulted in the Supreme Court legalizing on segregation of schools, as long as the schools were “separate, but equal.”. In 1950, the National Association for the Advancement…

race” (Grumberger, 272). Prison officials implemented this policy because they believed racial segregation was a reasonable necessity needed to stop gang violence. In 1995, Johnson filed his original complaint in the United States District Court for the Central District of California (Grumberger, 272). Johnson argued that by assigning cellmates on the basis of race, the CDC violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Equal Protection clause states that “no state shall..…