Massey Ferguson

The world is full of stories and incidents that have occurred involving discrimination and the effects they have on students. This inequality and unnecessary act called racism within many school systems can be dated back to 1896 to the Plessy V. Ferguson case which resulted in “separate facilities for education” and an “equal education” (Campbell). This case is what provided us with the term “separate but equal”, this meant that white and black children had to attend separate schools but would supposedly

may be one’s unjust opinion towards another, racism is when one believes that their race is superior to another and has the right to dominate. Racism is prejudice, but typically with power, such as status, authority, and influence. The Plessy vs. Ferguson case is a clear example of prejudice, as well as racism. In 1896, a mulatto man named Homer Plessy sat in the white compartment on a railroad train. The conductor had prejudice about it, and Plessy was

it has always came back stronger than before. One example of this is the Plessy v Ferguson case. The mindset of blacks and whites being separate but equal is what mainly caused this court case to have such a large impact. The legislation of racism in the Plessy v Ferguson case made eradicating racism and reaching equality between whites and blacks even more difficult. Like previously stated, the Plessy v Ferguson case

the material. However, watching my classmate’s role play certain topics in the chapters, gave me a better understanding. In one of the class lecture the class was broken up into groups. The group I was in, assignment was to present on the Plessy vs Ferguson case. Embarrassing enough, it was my first-time learning about the case. Upon researching and discussing the case, I concluded that this case is an important part of our history just as much as slavery. Thinking back to pervious class lecture when

1. What economic issues gave rise to the Populist Party, and what political and economic changes did the party advocate? Why were they considered so radical? Due to “…falling agricultural prices and growing economic dependency” (Foner 636) in the mid-nineteenth century, farmers in the South began to face inevitable economic uncertainty. Farmers, both white and black alike, were thrown into poverty due to sharecropping and the fall of the price of cotton, and many faced the fear of losing everything

Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King Jr., once said, “Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.” Though this was said decades after the end of slavery, it is as timely then as it is today. After the Civil War era, it looked as if things were getting better for blacks in terms of slavery, however, this time period only furthered the idea of segregation between blacks and whites. Analyzing pieces of literature and history show that

The Groveland Boys: A Miscarriage of Justice Liberty Morse HIST 1221: Devil in the Grove Mary Ludwig October 18, 2017  In the book Devil in the Grove, Gilbert King writes about the case of the Groveland Four and the incredible career of Thorogood Marshall. This book is a broad sweep of the unbelievable struggle against racism and the fight for civil rights in the Jim Crowe south. The case of the Groveland Four shows how the social climate of the South allowed a racist Sheriff and other

William Faulkner’s Light in August portrays the social alienation of African Americans in the South during the 20th century. The novel was based in the American South, during the 1930s, when racial tensions continued to surge. Faulkner exploited Joe Christmas, a biracial orphan, to represent the social prejudices African Americans faced. Christmas continuously struggled with his racial identity throughout the novel. Along with the internal conflict, Christmas also faced an external conflict with

QUESTION PRESENTED Are State Senate district 12, and State Assembly districts 24 and 25 racial gerrymanders prohibited by the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause with race as a predominant factor in redistricting? SHORT ANSWER No. The districts were drawn without race as a predominating factor and used traditional redistricting principles as guidelines. FACTS The State of East Cakalaka redrew its legislative boundaries using the 2020 census data. Dr. Gerry Mander performed the redistricting

Once upon a time, there was a man named Homer Plessy. He was born during the civil war in New Orleans and enjoyed many freedoms growing up, however, those freedoms disappear after Reconstruction Era ended in 1877. Jim Crow Laws legalize racial segregation throughout the South. In Louisiana, the Separate Car Act forced black and white people to sit in separate railroad cars. Homer Plessy was one eights black and under the Louisiana Law he was classified as black, therefore, he would have