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Case: Plessy v. Ferguson Cite: 163 U.S. 537 (1896) Vote: 7-1 Opinion: Brown Facts: • In 1890 Louisiana passed the Separate Car Act. o Required different cars for blacks and whites on railroads. • A group of citizens formed Comité des Citoyens in order to repeal and/or fight the laws effect. o Formed by black, creole and white New Orleans Residents • The group persuaded Homer Plessy, a mixed race free man to participate in a test. o Even though he had some European background he was still…

Judicial restraint; what is it, or better yet, who is it? Judicial restraint is a judicial theory in which the judge does not administer his or her own political preferences onto the ruling of any certain case. One key characteristic of a judge who adheres to this judicial theory is the hesitancy to strike down laws, because judicial restrainers do not see themselves as being able to make law from the bench. Other major corresponding characteristics and ideologies judicial restrainers frequently…

Freedom and equality; two different things that can be taken into the extreme wrongdoing. Our ancestors, who once had a vision for this country, would not know that this country would eventually be a world of shame. Freedom is a word that many people don’t use lightly. Freedom can pertain to being free from restraints, whereas equality pertains to all being equal or the same. Every person has their own personality and everyone is unique in their own way. Just because someone has a different…

According to Schneider and Wildman (2011), before the 21st century, gender-based classification in education experienced a culture shift in how the Courts, as well as the states, should react to single-sex education. The authors reference three eras, (1) Before gender-neutral treatment in America, (2) When education (by design) discriminated against women’s ability to succeed outside the home. (3) When research began after the 21st century. Between 1870-1910, Those in opposition, protectionists…

Martin Luther King Jr delivered a speech on August 1963 called “I Have Dream” on the March unto Washington D.C. As a result of the Jim Crow law, communities were segregated. One man changed that, Martin Luther King Jr. He started a movement that led up to his “I Have A Dream” speech. This speech impacted over 250,000 people, that brought unity and liberty. Dr King’s speech impacted many due to the cause that the whole movement was approached in a nonviolent manner. Dr. King’s speech solved…

In the United States Constitution, our founding fathers declared, that all Americans and people should be guaranteed civil rights. This entails the right to vote, protection under the law, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and so on. African Americans however did not receive any of these rights, they were deemed to be inferior. This helped the white Americans justify their dreadful treatment towards African Americans. Throughout history, it is evident that African American people suffered…

Prior to, and even during the African-American Civil Rights Movement of 1954-1968 , the United States of America saw a separation between their Blacks and Whites, as a result of the practice of the Jim Crow Laws which promoted the idea that the Blacks were lesser than the White . This saw the rise of two prominent African-American Civil Rights activists, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Though the two activists had a common goal (which was racial equality), their ideas of equality and…

In Linda Alchins article, “Plessy VS Ferguson Case” Plessy said, “I am an American citizen and I paid for a first class ticket and I intend to ride in this first class car.” Plessy didn’t believe in the separation of the carts, but he was aware that was the law in Louisiana. He later was imprisoned…

A society that practices prejudice is intolerant and problematic for the opressed and dysfunctional for both the oppressed and the oppressor. The word prejudice means to have “an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reasoning ”. Prejudice can lead to and ties well with discrimination and racism. Prejudice can make a person feel terrible. It also has negative mental effects such depression, sadness, and anxiety on a person . During the time Anna moody…

Following the groundbreaking and overwhelmingly momentous Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, the “separate but equal” policy was officially held unconstitutional. While many celebrated the decision as a testament to upholding racial equality, Southern white nationalists were not so thrilled with the decision. Thus, they created and submitted the Southern Manifesto, a legislative document condemning Brown as a violation of the balance of constitutional power between the nation…