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court. Individuals feel that their beliefs are more important than the protection of rights and the deliverance of law or the law itself cannot go outside of its limitations to provide justice. This is apparent in the court cases of Marbury v Madison, Plessy v Ferguson, and the book To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee. These cases clearly exemplify that the law does not always provide justice, although it endeavors to do so. In the court case of Marbury v Madison from 1803, it is apparent that justice

sub-human treatment persisted under subjection arrived at an end when the 13th Amendment abrogated bondage. Furthermore, the fourteenth Amendment now promised them level with insurance and due process under the law. However the harm delivered by the Plessy versus Ferguson case which sanctioned the "different however equivalent" teaching, added fuel to an officially seething flame of isolation, exacerbating an awful circumstance just at this point guaranteeing and supporting the continuation of the racial

1) The Supreme Court majority in Plessy v. Ferguson justified segregation by following a certain belief called “Separate but Equal”. This meant that the races should be split up but equal. There had to be separate facilities but had to be of equal quality. An example would be African-Americans have their own bathroom, and Caucasians have their own bathrooms. However, the Caucasians bathroom couldn’t be any cleaner, or operate better than an African-American bathroom or vice versa. Frank Clark had

Plessy v. Ferguson The case involving Homer Plessy, who was brought before Judge John H. Ferguson of the Criminal Court in New Orleans originated in 1892 as a challenge to Louisiana’s Separate Car Act of 1890. The law required that all railroads operating in the state of Louisiana provide equal but separate accommodations for white and African American passengers and prohibited passengers from entering accommodations other than those to which they had been assigned on the basis of their race. It

progress, it has accomplished the end for which it is organized and performed all of the functions respecting social advantages with which it is endowed." Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896), was the landmark US Supreme Court case that legalized discrimination against African-Americans and gave credence to the "separate but equal" doctrine. Plessy, and the Jim Crow laws that flourished in the South due to

listed whites only and blacks only. This included schools, railroad cars, and busses.Two key cases are Plessy v.s. Ferguson and Brown v.s. Board of Education. The majority and minority’s decisions for these two cases set precedent that will effect everyone in America. These landmark cases are closely related because they helped provide the true intent of the 13th and 14th amendment. In addition, Plessy v.s. Ferguson and Brown v.s. Board of Education effectively help revolutionize the interpretation of

Plessy vs Ferguson and Brown vs Board of Education The famous court cases Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of education both dealt with the treatment of African Americans. The outcome of Plessy vs. Ferguson upheld the doctrines of separate but equal, the notion whites and blacks could be segregated but still seen as equal in the eyes of the law. Brown vs Board of education to the contrary ended with the doctrine of separate of equal being done away with by the Supreme Court

Introduction     On June 7th, 1892, Homer Plessy paid for and rode the East Louisiana Railway from New Orleans to Covington. He paid for first class and was riding alongside white counterparts. This may seem like a harmless ordeal to some, but a key fact is missing. Homer Plessy was an “octoroon”, meaning he was one-eighth black. Under Louisiana law, people of color were forced to sit separately from whites due to the Separate Car Act. Even though Plessy was only one-eighth black, he was still considered

June, 1892, Homer A. Plessy was arrested and jailed for boarding a car that was intended to seat white patrons only. He was a mix of two races, white and black. Plessy was 7/8ths white and only a meager 1/8th black. He was allowed to ride in his cart until he made his race known to the conductor, who then asked him to move to the cars for black patrons. When Plessy refused, the conductor had him arrested. On May 18, 1896 in a 7-1 decision, the policy of “separate but equal” was declared constitutional

employees for violating this law. On June 7, 1892 Homer Plessy took a vacant seat in a white only car on his trip between New Orleans and Los Angeles. Plessy was arrested because he was mixed, but was preferred as black and was put to trial for violating a law that was passed by the Supreme Court in 1890. Plessy felt that the Supreme Court was treating blacks unequal, so he filed an authority against the judge, Hon John H. Ferguson. Plessy argued that the segregation law violated the Equal Protection