Plessy Vs. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson Starting on April 13, a case of equality of faculties based on the terms of condition subjected by the constitution in the idea that he like every other white American Homer Adolph Plessy has his rights, privileges and immunity secured under these pretenses of the constitution. Plessy being a citizen of the United States and a resident of the state of Louisiana had mixed family background with only a small portion of African American decent although this was not discernible in him. On June 7, 1982 he bought a first class ticket on the East Louisiana railway where he took an empty seat in an area where white passengers were being accommodated. This railroad was under the control of Louisiana state law where by the law as
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The the fourteenth amendment addresses “ many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens… the phrase in the amendment is "equal protection of the laws", which figures prominently in a wide variety of landmark cases…” (Cornell University Law School). In consideration of these amendments the supreme court decided on May 18, 1996 that the state law was with is the constitutional boundaries as along as the separate accommodations for the races were equal that this was all the constitution could enforce. As justice Brown determined that the 14th amendment intended to create absolute equality for all races. In other terms segregation does not constitute in itself unlawful …show more content…
Board of Education. At this point the justices asserted that segregation is ultimately unequal, as Thurgood Marshall was able to present an argument that compelled the supreme court away from the idea of segregation in education. Furthermore Marshall was able to convince the court that the although the idea of equal is considerable in fact the “equal” faculties were nowhere near equal. After this landmark decision was made the Jim Crow laws were enacted the complete desegregation of schools “with all deliberate speed”. With this decision the civil rights movement continued to take steps towards true equality in all aspects of life, thus resulting in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968 prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, sex, and national origin in employment and
The the fourteenth amendment addresses “ many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens… the phrase in the amendment is "equal protection of the laws", which figures prominently in a wide variety of landmark cases…” (Cornell University Law School). In consideration of these amendments the supreme court decided on May 18, 1996 that the state law was with is the constitutional boundaries as along as the separate accommodations for the races were equal that this was all the constitution could enforce. As justice Brown determined that the 14th amendment intended to create absolute equality for all races. In other terms segregation does not constitute in itself unlawful …show more content…
Board of Education. At this point the justices asserted that segregation is ultimately unequal, as Thurgood Marshall was able to present an argument that compelled the supreme court away from the idea of segregation in education. Furthermore Marshall was able to convince the court that the although the idea of equal is considerable in fact the “equal” faculties were nowhere near equal. After this landmark decision was made the Jim Crow laws were enacted the complete desegregation of schools “with all deliberate speed”. With this decision the civil rights movement continued to take steps towards true equality in all aspects of life, thus resulting in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968 prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, sex, and national origin in employment and