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    protests there was Sit Ins, Sign board, and speeches which were very useful. Then there was lawsuits and Legal cases. The first lawsuit/ legal case was the Plessy V. Ferguson which believed in separate but equal societies. Then second was FEPC which was an organization who believed in desegregating government jobs, then finally there was Brown V. Education which was to completely desegregate schools. Then finally there was Boycotts some examples of Boycotts was the Montgomery Bus Boycott and lastly

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    Time has passed since the branches of government were created, and so have the everlasting needs of the expanding United States. These three branches consist of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. Each with balanced power impacts every American citizen’s life and needs. Each significant branch of the government addresses social, economic, and political matters which influences the lives of a society with changing needs. The Executive Branch has expanded to attend to the needs of the country

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    Earl Warren was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969. Warren is best known for his majority decision in the controversial case Brown v. Board of Education. In this essay, you will learn about Warren life before the Supreme Court,how Korematsu helped shaped the rest of Earl Warren’s career, and his most important cases. From the age of nine Earl Warren has worked on a railroad crew to earn money to go to college. Warren attended Kern County high school. There he gained interest

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    Ferguson originated in 1892 when Homer Plessy, who was seven-eights white, purchased a train ticket and sat in the train car that was reserved for white people. After refusing to vacate the car, he was arrested and charged with a violation of the Separate Car Act. At his trail, John Ferguson claimed his actions to be unconstitutional. Plessy v. Ferguson advanced the “separate but equal” doctrine. The Supreme Court decision further

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    among the total population. The minority was the African Americans. Laws were put in place called the Jim Crow laws. These laws made the African Americans have separate restaurants, schools, water fountains, hospitals, and train car seating. Homer A. Plessy was especially against this. In 1896 he was seated in a whites only train car. Immediately, he was told he was not allowed to sit in that area, but he refused to move. He didn't think the clause was applicable in this instance. It was said in the

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    to mask inhumanity between blacks and whites. While not every Black person, Native American or Chinese student feels segregated, it oppresses Americans proving it in supreme court cases like, Plessy v. Ferguson Brown v. Board of Education Lau v. Nichols Shelley v. Kraemer and University of California v. Bakke , focusing on the

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    This shift guided the downfall of black legal and political rights. In 1896, the Supreme Court in the Plessy v. Ferguson case endorsed legalized segregation. The Plessy decision established the courts verdict that public accommodation should be separate but ‘equal’. Black people received separate public schools, transport services, water fountains, restaurants and hotels. Plessy v. Ferguson implied a segregation of blacks and whites on the terms that such segregation was equal on both parts, and

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    The 14th Amendment played a large role in the way we perceive today’s society. Being that the beginning of the 14th Amendment states “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside”, the intent of the 14th Amendment is to stop the granting of automatic citizenship of new born babies in the United States. Those babies were born by illegal mothers which deems them to be considered

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