Plessy v. Ferguson

of their appearance or their race. In America up until the 1950 's the problem of prejudice was manifested through segregation. The Supreme Court ruling of Brown v. Board of Education impacted society by officially desegregating public education, making racism illegal, and setting a precedent of equality within the legal system. Brown v. Board of Education is told to be one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century (Mcbride 1). The case was named after Rev. Oliver Brown…

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…

rights for everyone. In my assignment, I will be discussing some of the events that occurred in this era of time and including some of my knowledge of them. I will be breaking up my events into three sections, going from the cases of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Right Act of 1965 and lastly Affirmative Action. These cases had a tremendous impact on the Civil Right Movement, they opened doors for…

While many Supreme Court cases challenged Jim Crow laws and segregation nationally, the cases of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and Browder v. Gayle in 1956 contested these laws particularly. Jim Crow laws, originated from Black Codes and promoted “separate but equal” segregation in the United States between 1876 and 1965. These laws came about after the Reconstruction period and led to unfair treatment in comparison to what was given to Americans of European ancestry, which led to the…

Due to the Jim Crow Law, that made it legal to segregate blacks form white people, and the “Separate but equal” philosophy that came from the Plessy vs Ferguson case. Black children were separated from white kids, while they learned in school. However, this was not seeming fair or legal to many blacks who argued that it was not legal. This agreement brought the case of Brown verse the Board of Education, to the Supreme Court. How would it significance change the lives of blacks and white…

doctrine of "separate but equal" took place in 1896 known as the Plessy vs Ferguson act. The Plessy V. Ferguson did not make it to where blacks and whites had all the same rights, but at the time, they thought that it was a good decision. Little did they know, less than a hundred years later would we be trying to integrate white and black schools. It came from an incident in 1892 in which african american train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow train car, breaking a law in…

sit-ins, and all of the legal battles. such as the Brown v. Board of education ruling. The Brown v. Board of education ruling was a pivotal moment in history, it was the point where all the past segregation cases like Plessy v. Ferguson boiled over, it then sparked the rest of the legal movement of the civil rights, its effect even transcends to today standing for the fact that in America justice surpasses…

Brown v. Board of Education is a historical landmark case that came from Topeka, Kansas where a young girl by the name of Linda Brown was denied admission to 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…

Case Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Parties Facts Linda Brown, an eight-year-old African American girl, was denied permission to attend an all white school only five blocks away from her home in Topeka, Kansas. Linda’s parents made the decision to file a lawsuit against the Board of Education of Topeka, alleging that they are depriving Linda of equal protection of laws as required under the Fourteenth Amendment. The courts denied that there were any violations of Linda Brown’s right…

peoples ' lives. In 1954, there was a case, called “Brown v. The Board of Education” that went to the Supreme Court. There was the controversial court case that tried to pass the law for unsegregated public schools. The law was even passed but it was difficult to enforce. There was too much segregation at this time in education so Brown v. Board of Education became an important point in history to stop the progress of racism. The Brown v. Board of Education was a very important case to remember…