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During Reconstruction, the period following the Civil War, federal troops occupied parts of the South to maintain order and ensure the rights of African Americans. Congress established the Freedmen 's Bureau to help former slaves and enacted some legal protections for African Americans. In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing citizenship and legal equality to all people born in the United States, including former slaves, and in 1870, the Fifteenth…

Board of Education of Topeka is Plessy v. Ferguson. Plessy v. Ferguson was a court case that dealt with the issue of segregation and the racial definition of colored people. This was based on the Civil Rights Case in 1883, where the court stated, the equal protection clause in the fourteenth amendment provided…

enforced, then we would have had rights for blacks a lot sooner than in the 1960’s. It must have seemed to blacks like their rights would go forward a bit one day and then reverse on the next. A few years later the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy V. Ferguson that having separate train cars for whites and…

her local elementary school for the color of her skin. This supreme court case made the decisive decision between whether racial segregations in public schools is unconstitutional. More decisively the decision that changed the ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson that argued that although people are separate but equal, when it comes to education there is no way to make it fully equal then to integrate. This case was used by the NAACP to fight for Linda Brown. Allowing her and many other people like her…

the ones to decide who would protect equality and define it. The controversial views over equality in accordance to the 14th amendment persisted in the cases of Plessy and the political equality over social equality. The outcome of the Plessy v. Ferguson case with the…

commodities on both sides. The outraged African American community decided to put this to the test. A person named Homer Plessy was arrested for refusing to move from a seat that was designated for white people. This led to the Plessy v. Ferguson case. The Plessy v. Ferguson case was the case that officially validated segregation in public facilities. The case began after Homer Plessy was convicted after refusing to sit in a “colored only” area and the case was brought to the Supreme Court.…

Mass Incarceration: Mass incarceration is a criminal sanction carried out by the justice system that results in nearly invisible punishment including the diminution of rights and privileges of citizenship and legal residency in the United States (Mauer & Chesney-Lind, 2002). Mass incarceration provides one of the largest and most influential examples of institutionalized racism in the contemporary U.S. because of the way that african americans are systematically singled out to be searched,…

The Court in its 1954 ruling decided that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional and that all provisions of federal, state, or local law must accept the new principle. Only thing that remains to be considered is the manner “in which the relief is to be accorded.” Based on different conditions in all states that are involved in this case, the Court asked for Attorney General of the United States and Attorney General of all states in which the racial segregation is permitted to…

Separate is Unequal: Brown v. Board of Education After World War II, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was beginning to support movements that would bring equal rights to Blacks in the United States. Soon, five cases were filed in Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington D.C., and Delaware on the behalf of elementary schoolers that were facing racial segregation in their school districts. The five cases were collectively heard by the Supreme Court as…

By ending legal segregation and robbing it of its moral legitimacy, the case of Brown v. Board showed Black Americans that the law was on their side, encouraging future progress for the civil rights movement. The first political cartoon offered by the module is from the Chronicle and it connects the case of Brown v. Board to Lincoln and his Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves from the confederate states during the civil war. Remarking similarly, Thurgood Marshall, the civil rights…