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    other White try to make a movement about this unjust treatment. They want to make a change. They want all people should be treated all equally no matter what they are and what color skin they belong to. For those reasons, it was lead to Plessy vs. Ferguson court case in 1896 that was the first court case that hold discrimination between white and color under the…

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    There is still a clear, though no longer in print, rule that allows for this accommodation using the infamous “Separate but equal” used to win the case in Plessy v. Ferguson. Transgenders are currently experiencing the same situation colored people did almost 60 years ago. They are also bound to the decision made in Plessy v. Ferguson, even though it was overturn decades ago. Transgender individuals are free to use any necessity as long as they do not utilize the same facilities as their…

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    Among the grievances were exclusion from a hotel dining room; refusal of admission to a New York City opera; segregation to lower-quality seats in a theater; and removal from a train car set aside for white women. All of these indignities were violations of rights enumerated in the 1875 legislation. The Supreme Court analyzed these cases in view of the Fourteenth Amendment and concluded the Amendment was not designed to apply to private citizens or private organizations, but only to the federal…

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    Racism is a popular theme in Southern Fiction. One can not think of the American South without thinking of slavery, Jim Crow Laws, or the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s. The South had created its own social hierarchy, one that it had fought for in the Civil War and one that it would claim to for nearly a hundred years after the war was over. Two authors that explore this idea of the social hierarchy of the south are Flannery O’Connor in her short story, “The Displaced Person”, and Harper…

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    have been many cases that have shaped segregation into what it is now. Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education have the biggest impacts with their similarities, differences, and their influences on society. Plessy ended up with a 7-1 decision, Brown was a unanimous decision in the supreme court, and both cases have to do with the Separate but Equal Clause in the fourteenth amendment. Plessy v. Ferguson happened because of the Separate Car Act in 1890. This act allowed blacks and…

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    being violated? Both Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education deal with someone's rights being violated , however they have their own ways of dealing with it. Homer Plessy was arrested for sitting with the whites in a first-class railroad car. The Seperate Car Act of 1890 declared that all railroad companies in Louisiana provide seperate but equal accommodations for white and non-white passsengers of the train cars. This lead to the Plessy v. Ferguson case because when…

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    “Their petitions were ignored, they filed a suit challenging segregation itself”(Briggs).One of the many court cases towards racial tensions in schools was the case, Briggs VS Elliott. This case involved R.W. Elliott and Harry Briggs. The court case took place in 1952. It was located in the Clarendon County school district of South Carolina. This court case was the first of the five Brown VS Board of Education cases. Because of the racial conflicts in schools, the Supreme Court compromised by…

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    Efforts to desegregate public schools have been presence since 1954. The efforts were the outcomes of the opinions of the Supreme Court based on the way it interpreted the Equal Protection Clause, which is part of the Fourteenth Amendment. Some of the controversial cases in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1950 include Brown v. Board of Education, New Count School Board v. Green, and Swam v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education asserted the need for public schools to avoid any intentional segregation…

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    Ignorance is the Real Enemy Origin: Ray Stannard Baker. After 1896. US cities. Muckraker. Primary. Purpose: To explain muckrakers impact society What does Baker say is the reason or purpose for Muckrakers? What is their responsibility? Baker states that the reason or purpose for Muckrakers is to expose the world around them. To really look at it and they are responsible to report honestly, fully, and above all interestingly at what they found. Muckrakers must report the facts, they can’t…

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    similar to the Plessy vs. Ferguson case that took place in 1896. In both cases the defendant is ruled guilty because of their skin color. In the Plessy vs. Ferguson case Homer Plessy, who is only one-eighth black, is jailed for sitting in the “white” car when he was supposed to be sitting in the “colored” car. He is jailed because of Louisiana’s Separate Car Act that said blacks and whites were to sit in separate cars. In Plessy’s trial against the judge, John Ferguson, his lawyer said that…

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