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1890’s segregation started to become more common and white people felt superior to other races, especially African Americans. White people believed, black people did not deserve the rights and respect that they had. Homer Plessy, the so called wrongdoer in the Plessy vs Ferguson case, was seven-eighths white and one-eighths black, and he had an appearance of a white man. On June 7, 1892, he purchased a railroad ticket from New Orleans to Covington La, and sat in an empty seat in a whites only car

citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States," which included former slaves recently freed. Although the slaves were freed, there was still discrimination all around them. Discrimination is defined as "differences between things or treating someone as inferior based on their race". In 1800’s through 1900 there was a huge amount of cases that occurred due to violations of the 14th Amendment. Two well known landmark Supreme Court cases involving the 14th Amendment are Plessy vs. Ferguson

The 1954 Supreme Court case, Brown vs. the Board of Education ruling ultimately led to the desegregation of public schools in the United States. The decision was a stepping-stone for the civil rights movement and one of many efforts made to reach racial equality, efforts that initially began with the Civil War Amendments to the United States Constitution. These Amendments included but were not limited to the Thirteenth Amendment, which was ratified in 1865 and banned slavery in the United States

selves. Some major Supreme Court decisions that impacted the civil rights movement are: Plessy vs Ferguson, Brown vs Board of Education, and Loving vs Virginia. On June 7, 1892, 30-year-old Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the white race car of the East Louisiana Railroad. Plessy could easily pass for white, but under Louisiana law, he was considered black despite his light colored skin and therefore required to sit in the colored race car. He was a Creole of Color, a term used to refer to black

and the Making of the Jim Crow South: Travel and Segregation on Tennessee Railroads, 1875-1905). Ida sued the court and lost by the Supreme Court. She disappointed with the outcome of her case, Ida Wells, wrong in her diary: "I have firmly believed all along that the law was on our side and would, when we appealed to it, give us justice" (Law, Society, Identity, and the Making of the Jim Crow South: Travel and Segregation on Tennessee Railroads, 1875-1905). In the 1880s, the law of common carriers

their rights. African Americans went through severe struggles and hardships to fight for their civil rights and receive equal treatments. Many laws came into effect to end African American segregation and gain equal rights. Some of these include Plessy v. Ferguson of 1896, Brown v. Board of Education 1899, poll taxes and literacy tests, and Civil Rights act of 1963. The first effort to end segregation was the decision of the supreme court in 1896 to have racial segregation as long as it was equal. This

Plessy vs. Ferguson Plessy v. Ferguson , a very important case of 1896 in which the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the legality of racial segregation. At the time of the ruling, segregation between blacks and whites already existed in most schools, restaurants, and other public facilities in the American South. In the Plessy decision, the Supreme Court ruled that such segregation did not violate the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. This amendment provides

Brown vs. Board of Education Although slavery was finally ended at the end of the nineteenth century black people found themselves still in the process of fighting. What they had to fight for was their own rights. The Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the civil war brought about literal freedom but the beliefs and attitudes of whites, especially in the south kept the black people repressed. In this paper I would like to share the research that I found that helped to launch the fight

Brown vs. Board of Education Brown v. Board of Education Brown v. Board of education case took place in 1954. It is one of the most important cases in the American history of racial prejudice. The U.S. Supreme Court recognized separate schools for blacks and whites unconstitutional. This decision became an important event of struggle against racial segregation in the United States. The Brown case proved that there is no way a separation on the base of race to be in a democratic society. Brown

after the Plessy decision, but that it took some time. He stated, “In the early years of the twentieth century, it was becoming clear that the Negro would be effectively disfranchised throughout the South, … and that neither equality nor aspiration for equality in any department of life were for him “ (6-7). The Plessy decision was made in 1896, but it took some time before Americans chose to segregate every aspect of their lives from the African Americans. This shows that Plessy vs. Ferguson had no